厄，看来是选材失误了，本以为外国评委的眼光都还是不错的~~
那这个悬赏就撤销吧。
至于已经开始翻译者，如果愿意完成的话，奖励照旧。  


SFFword2006 短篇小说三等奖作品 （因为一等奖已经在翻译了，二等奖是科幻……）

悬赏翻译，如愿意领取任务，请首先回帖说明，以防撞车。

附件为小说全文

奖励：3声望
一周内完成：额外奖励1声望

引用:

Obi Nwankwo Meets The Dark Sprit
by Marc Worley

Little Obi Nwankwo was on his way home from school when he heard the distant thunder of gunshots. He was late because he had stayed behind to look at a strange old paper book that the teacher had brought in. The fact that it was made of paper was strange enough but it was full of big colour pictures of a place his teacher had called "The North Pole", a land, his teacher had said, that was made of ice and snow that sits right on top of the world. Obi was transfixed by the strange, alien beauty of that white, empty world that was so cold it would freeze you to death. His teacher, a thin white woman called Miss Hughes who was always sick and sweating had told him that the North Pole was melting and that there wasn't much of it left these days. Obi felt sad and resolved to journey there as soon as he was old enough and see for himself this cold place where no trees grow and where great white bears as big as trucks live on the ice, bears so big that they can swallow a man whole.

Little Obi Nwankwo had stayed late at school that day, poring over those pictures until Miss Hughes had finished her work for the day and shooed him home to his family. Obi's family was big. He had him mum and his dad, three older brothers and two older sisters who all shared a home with his maternal grandparents and uncle John who was very ill and who was waiting to die his grandma had said. Obi was the youngest of the family and because of his bad hips he was mostly left to his own devices. His father had told him that one day the family will have enough money to send him to the hospital in Lagos where doctors would fix his legs and he would be able to run, climb and play football like the other boys. Had he been big and strong like his brothers then he would have been at work and not at school. Despite the pain that made him cry in the morning when he struggled out of bed, Obi thought he was very lucky. He loved his family and he loved his home and he loved going to school……

我尽量试世吧，毕竟最近有点忙，英语也扔了好几年了。

只是试一下？您选了这个，别人就不会选了，没有自信弄完就别说话。

PS  Journey into the Kingdom至少是这篇长度的三倍，为何奖励却是一样？尤其是时限都是一个星期。

这只是尝试用奖励的方式来鼓励大家贡献一份力量
就公平来说，这个制度肯定有很多缺陷，但封精华文章时，不也只能按主题数量而无法区分字数。所以，希望大家还是把奖励当作额外的乐趣，而不是主要的关注点吧。
时间上大概是有所不妥，我会注意修改。

声明:本人并非"赏金猎手",一则实力有限,二则无此热情.在2楼说的话纯属一时嘴快,外加想充实生活.并无意领赏,让各位英雄见笑,万分歉意,特此声明,希望避免误会.

于是，我报名试一下吧，一周完不成，因为周末要加班。于是两周吧.....

被别人认领了 >_<
不过……这文的质量实在……

被认领了……那么翻好了那一半就放弃了！话说，这篇怎么看怎么看都更像科幻啊！——还是不怎么样那种……

这是什么文章。。。又废又不是奇幻啊。。。

在下阅毕此文后，深感这样惊世骇俗、千年一遇的杰作竟然只能拿一个毫无价值的不知名小奖，这根本就是评委们有眼无珠！在下准备修书一封寄往瑞典皇家学院，力挺写就此传奇佳作的作者大人为2007年诺贝利文学奖得主！恭请Marc Worley先生前往切尔诺贝利核电站反应堆旧址领奖！（不然干嘛叫“(切尔)诺贝利”文学奖呢？）还有，届时我们会把反应堆功率全开放放烟花欢迎您的，所以您来了的话就不要回去了~~