The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
大象整个身子侧卧着，很快就睡着了。几只狗开始对它吠叫。大象在极度愤怒中醒来：它追赶着狗，狗为了寻求进入了村子。这并没有阻止大象，它摧毁了十几座房屋，弄伤了好几个人。村民们既害怕又愤怒，然后有人建议喊大象公主帕尔巴蒂来。
Parbati Barua's father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.
帕尔巴蒂·巴鲁亚的父亲是一名老虎猎人和驯象师。他在帕尔巴蒂学会走路之前就开始教她骑大象。他还教她大象围捕的危险技艺——如何捕捉野象。
Parbati hasn't always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.
帕巴蒂并不总是生活在丛林中。在与父亲一起度过了童年快乐的狩猎之后，她被送到了城里的寄宿学校。但帕尔巴蒂一直都不未习惯，多年后她又回到了从前的生活。她说：“城里的生活太沉闷了。捕捉大象是一种冒险，追逐过后，这种兴奋会持续好几天”。
But Parbati doesn't catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.
但帕尔巴蒂捕捉大象并不仅仅是为了好玩。她说：“我的工作是从大象身上拯救人类，并保护大象免受人类伤害。”这正是帕尔巴蒂多年来一直在做的事情。印度象越来越愤怒：多年来，非法捕猎者袭击了它，它在丛林中的家园已经变成了小块土地。它现在正在进行反击。每当野生大象进入茶园或村庄时，在杀死大象之前都会叫帕尔巴蒂去引导它们回到丛林。
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
驯象师的工作还包括爱和奉献。一个好的驯象师每天会花上几个小时给新捕获的大象唱情歌。她说：“最终，它们会爱上驯象师，永远不会忘记他们。它们也比人类更忠诚。”当她爬上她的一头大象，坐在这只巨大的快乐的动物身上时，真是一位大象公主！
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