⊙ By David Leveille ⊙翻譯：Wendy

Every Passport Tells a Story每本護照都有一個故事

⊙ By David Leveille ⊙翻譯：Wendy

申領(lǐng)的護照到手，我們通常會翻到個人信息頁，吐槽一下自己的照片，頂多把各項個人信息檢查一遍就完事了?？墒悄阒绬?，護照不僅僅是表明一個人國籍和身份的證件，它更體現(xiàn)了一國文化和歷史，人們可以從一本被多次使用的護照看到世界政治和外交的風云變幻。來聽聽護照收藏家是怎么說的。

Host:If only old passports could talk.They’d tell you about the people that held them,and the1)border crossing 過境，出入境border crossingsthat went2)smoothly [?smu?el?] adv.平穩(wěn)地smoothlyor perhaps not so smoothly.Tom Topol is fascinated by old passports.He collects them and then digs into their back-stories.

Tom:It really started in Japan,when I was looking around there and I found a really,really nice old Japanese passport from the Japanese Empire from 1931,I believe.I opened the book and it was almost perfect condition,even it wastravelled.So,I opened the book and saw the passport picture,which was showing a…a young girl in the traditional3)kimono [k??m??n??] n.和服kimono,and that was just beautiful.I was really in love with this piece of document,so,I bought it! And that was really the start of [sic] all.

I was collecting more and more,just looking on the visual aspect of such documents.Are there stamps of travelling inside? Then,of course,at some time,you dig deeper so you go in,into the history of the passports,really.I’m looking more for the historical aspects,for example,when a country was changing,you know,from one government to another government,what they changed there.Did they change the4)coat of arms 國徽coat ofarms? Did they change the signatures? Did they change the forms? Or really going more into detail,what was the reason to change the passports?

Host:You ever hear about stories like that,where history kind of overtakes the5)validity [v??l?d?t?] n.有效性validityof a passport?

Tom:So,I had a…a year ago the chance to acquire an old British Palestine passport…

Host:Uhm.

Tom:…which was issued under British Palestine6)mandate [?m?nde?t] n.托管，授權(quán)mandateto a sailor,actually a captain of a ship.This captain had also a stamp in his passport entering then,in 1949,Israel,when Israel was founded.That’s,of course,quite interesting,because you have the old British Palestine on that passport,but in this passport,you have a stamp of Israel.Quite unique.

Host:That is a history book right in itself,isn’t it?

Tom:Right,it is,it is.

Host:Which country,today,has the “coolest”passport?

Tom:Well,that’s not so easy to answer,but I would say Norway,Sweden,the7)Nordic [?n??d?k] adj.北歐人的Nordiccountries.They are quite cool now.It also reflects the culture of the country somehow.And they have a lot of security features,so not even the police knows everything about this passport,so some security features are really hidden only for the passport printer to make the final decision if a passport is fake,8)forge [f??d?] v.偽造forged,whatever.

Host:And then there’s the9)Finnish [?f?n??] adj.芬蘭人的，芬蘭語的Finnishpassport which actually has,like,a10)flipbook [fl?p?b?k] n.動畫書；flip v.快速翻動flipbook.

Tom:That’s a cool thing,too.If you take the passport book in your hand,and you…you flip to all pages,then you see actually I think it’s a11)reindeer [?re?nd??（r）] n.馴鹿reindeerrunning.

Host:…that’s really cool.You definitely want to12)flaunt [fl??nt] v.炫耀flauntthat at the13)departure [d??pɑ?t??（r）] n.出發(fā)，離開departureline.Just so people can see how cool that is.

◆British Palestine 英屬巴勒斯坦托管地：第一次世界大戰(zhàn)結(jié)束時，奧斯曼帝國瓦解，國際聯(lián)盟在1920年委托英國暫時統(tǒng)治巴勒斯坦，管治范圍分兩部分：約旦河以西的巴勒斯坦地區(qū)和約旦河以東的外約旦地區(qū)，大致上包括了現(xiàn)今的以色列及約旦兩國。外約旦于1946年5月25日獨立，以色列于1948年5月14日獨立；1948年5月14日，英國對此地區(qū)的管治正式結(jié)束。

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主持人：要是舊護照能說話就好了，那它們會向你講述護照持有人的故事，告訴你哪幾次出入境順暢無阻，又有哪幾次出入境磕磕絆絆。湯姆·托波爾迷上了舊護照，他收藏舊護照，然后挖掘隱藏在它們背后的故事。

湯姆：我收集護照始于日本。當時我在那里四處逛，發(fā)現(xiàn)了一本非常、非常精致的日本舊護照，我相信它是日本帝國在1931年簽發(fā)的。我翻看那本護照，看到它盡管曾被多次使用，卻幾乎完好無損。我打開那本護照，看到里面的照片是一個……一個身穿傳統(tǒng)和服的年輕姑娘，很漂亮。我即時愛上了這本證件，就把它買下來了，由此開始了我的護照收藏之路。

我不斷收集越來越多的護照，只是想看看這種證件在視覺方面的細節(jié)，比如說里面有沒有留下各種簽證和出入境印章？然而，有時候，當你深究下去，你就能進一步了解這些護照的歷史，確實是這樣。我會更多地從歷史的角度去關(guān)注它們，比如，當一個國家發(fā)生了變化，你知道，出現(xiàn)了政權(quán)更替，該國的護照也會有什么變化嗎？護照上的國徽會變嗎？簽名呢？他們只是做形式上的改變還是連細節(jié)也會變？更改護照的原因是什么？

主持人：你有沒有聽過一些因為歷史事件而使護照失效的故事？

湯姆：是這樣，一年前我得到了一本英屬巴勒斯坦的舊護照……

主持人：嗯。

湯姆：……那是由英屬巴勒斯坦托管地簽發(fā)給一名海員的，準確地說他是名船長。這位船長的護照上還有在1949年進入以色列時的入境章，那時以色列已經(jīng)成立了。那當然是非常有趣的，因為這本護照有前英屬巴勒斯坦的標志，但在同一本護照上，還有以色列的印章，太特別了。

主持人：這本身就是一本歷史書，對嗎？

湯姆：對，確實，確實如此。

主持人：如今，哪個國家的護照最“酷”？

湯姆：嗯，這個問題不是那么好回答，不過我會說是挪威、瑞典這些北歐國家?，F(xiàn)在他們的護照相當酷，也在某種程度上反映了這些國家的文化。這些護照還有大量的安全功能，即使是警察也不了解護照上隱藏的所有信息，其中一些安全功能非常隱蔽，只有護照制作部門才能最終判定一本護照是否被冒仿、被偽造，等等。主持人：還有芬蘭的護照，它做得像一本動畫書。

湯姆：那也是一件很酷的事。如果你將護照拿在手上，你……你快速翻動整本護照，我想你就會看到一只正在奔跑的馴鹿。

主持人：真的很酷。在排隊等待出發(fā)時，你肯定想炫耀一下，就是要讓其他人看看你的護照有多酷。