Saturn, an alligator of international intrigue, has died at the Moscow Zoo on Friday at the age of 84.
备受国际关注的短吻鳄“土星”于上周五在莫斯科动物园去世，享年84岁。
That in itself made Saturn unusual.
能活这么久本身就够厉害了。
In the wild, the normal life span for an alligator is 30 to 50 years.
在野外，短吻鳄的正常寿命是30到50岁。
But longevity was the least unusual aspect of Saturn's biography.
但长寿并非土星的传奇鱼生中最不寻常的方面。
Saturn was born in the wild somewhere in Mississippi in 1936 and was shipped to the Berlin Zoo from which he disappeared on November 23, 1943, in the aftermath of an Allied air bombing campaign on Berlin.
土星1936年出生在密西西比州的野外，1943年11月23日，在盟军对柏林的空袭行动中，它从柏林动物园失踪。
One bomb directly struck the zoo's aquarium and, according to reports at the time, all of the alligators and crocodiles in captivity there were killed.
一枚炸弹直接击中了动物园的水族馆，据当时的报道，所有被关在那里的短吻鳄和鳄鱼都被炸死了。
In fact, of the 16.000 animals once kept in the Berlin Zoo, it is estimated that fewer than 100 survived the war.
事实上，在柏林动物园曾经饲养的16000只动物中，据估计只有不到100只在战争中幸存下来。
Saturn was one of them.
土星就是其中一只。
When he was blasted into freedom in 1943, Saturn was 7 years old, an alligator adolescent.
当他在1943年被炸而重获自由之时，土星才7岁，还是个鳄鱼青少年。
Two-and-a-half years later in June 1946, an almost mature Saturn was discovered and captured by British occupation forces.
两年半后的1946年6月，几乎长到了成熟期的土星被英国占领军发现并捕获。
Custody of the alligator was transferred to the allied Soviet troops in post-WWII Berlin who then sent him on to Moscow where he would live the next 74 years.
这只短吻鳄的监护权在二战后转移到了柏林的苏联盟军手中，随后被送往莫斯科，在那里他将度过接下来的74年。
It was in Moscow that the intriguing rumor started that Saturn was a part of a pet menagerie that belonged to Adolf Hitler.
在莫斯科，一个耐人寻味的谣言开始了，传说土星是属于阿道夫·希特勒的宠物动物园的一部分。
This undocumented episode with the Fuhrer gave the 11.5 foot alligator a celebrity status even though zoo officials absolved him of any political responsibility.
尽管动物园官员免除了这只11.5英尺长的短吻鳄的任何政治责任，但这段与元首的无证插曲却使它成为了名星。
"Even if, purely theoretically, he belonged to someone," the zoo's announcement of Saturn's death asserts, "animals are not involved in war and politics, it is absurd to blame them for human sins.”
“即使从理论上讲，它属于某个人，”动物园宣布土星死亡的声明声称，“动物与战争和政治无关，把人类的罪恶归咎于动物也是荒谬的。”
Far from blaming the alligator, officials at the Moscow Zoo treated him as an honored guest.
莫斯科动物园的工作人员非但没有责怪这只短吻鳄，反而把它当成了贵宾。
"We tried to take care of the venerable alligator with the utmost care and attention. He was choosy about food," the zoo's obituary said.
“我们尽力以最大的关心和照顾照顾这只可敬的短吻鳄。它对食物很挑剔，”动物园的讣告写道。
Even among his keepers, he knew who he liked -- ”He perfectly remembered the trusted keeper.”
即使在他的看守人中间，他也知道他喜欢谁——“他完全记得那个值得信赖的看守人。”
"He loved a massage, and if he didn’t like something," he knew how to show it.
“他喜欢按摩，如果他不喜欢某件事，”他知道如何表现出来。
If a zoo animal can be a historical figure, officials say this one qualifies.
如果一个动物园的动物可以成为一个历史人物的话，官员说，这家伙是合格的。
"Saturn is a whole era for us. There is not the slightest exaggeration," the announcement of his death declared.
“土星对我们来说是一个完整的时代。一点也不夸张，”他的死讯里宣称。
"He came after the Victory (in WWII) - and met it's 75th Anniversary. It is a great happiness that each of us could look into his eyes, just quietly be near. He saw many of us as children. We hope that we did not disappoint him.”
“他在二战胜利后来到这里，并在二战胜利75周年时与大家见面。我们每个人都能看着他的眼睛，静静的在他身边，这是一种巨大的幸福。他把我们许多人看作是孩子。我们希望我们没有让他失望。”
Death may not end Saturn's public career.
死亡可能不会结束土星的公共事业。
It has been reported that his carcass will be preserved and placed on exhibition at Moscow's Charles Darwin Museum of Biology.
据报道，他的尸体将被保存下来，并在莫斯科的达尔文生物博物馆展出。
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