一個真實的漂流瓶故事

Daniil Korotkikh, 13, spotted the beer bottle glittering on a beach in Russia's Kaliningrad region, and found a letter inside from Frank Uesbeck, 5. "If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you," the letter said.
現年13歲的丹尼爾.柯洛特奇科，在 俄羅斯加里寧格勒地區，發現了一個啤酒瓶，裏面有一封信，來自於弗蘭克， 5歲時的投遞。他在信上說，“如果你發現了這個，請給我回信，我也將給你回信。”

Since Daniil made contact, he and Frank, now 29, have chatted online.
自從丹尼爾和弗蘭克開始通訊後，他和現年29歲的弗蘭克，已在網上聊得火熱。

The German gave his surprise correspondent a new address to write to and promised to write back when he received his letter, the Associated Press news agency reports.
有關出版新聞機構稱，該德國年輕人還給了這個驚訝的收信人一個新的通訊地址，而且答應回信。

"He'll definitely get another letter from me," said Frank."It's really a wonderful story and who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person."
“我一定會給他回信的。”弗蘭克說。“它太令人驚訝了，也許我們在將來還能見到對方。”

'Hidden under the sand' “隱藏沙中”

Daniil found the bottle while out walking near the village of Morskoye on the Curonian Spit, a 100-km (60-mile) stretch of sand shared between Russia and Lithuania.
丹尼爾是在庫爾斯沙嘴遺址的一個叫莫斯科維的一個村落上發現的，當時瓶子正處於俄羅斯與立陶宛交界的一個小塊沙堆裏。

"I saw that bottle and it looked interesting," he said."It looked like a German beer bottle with a ceramic plug, and there was a message inside."
他說：“當我看到那個瓶子時，它看上去很是有趣，““它看上去就像一個德國啤酒瓶，塞子是瓷質的，裏面還有還有一段信息。"

His father, who knows schoolboy German, translated the letter, carefully wrapped in cellophane and sealed with a medical bandage.
他的父親，擁有一點學前的德語能力，給他的兒子進行了翻譯，那個信息條上還是用玻璃紙和一個醫用繃帶包裹，甚爲嚴實。

The message was dated 1987 and included an address in the German town of Coesfeld, where Frank's parents still live.
它是在1987年開始它的漂流的，裏面還有一個地址，是弗蘭克父母親現在的住址。

"At first I didn't believe it," Frank told AP about getting Daniil's response. In fact, he barely remembered the trip on which he had cast the bottle from a ship while travelling to Denmark. His father had actually written the then five-year-old's letter.
弗蘭克美在和聯社說得到丹尼爾的回信幾乎難以置信，他幾乎忘記他在多年前在丹麥遊覽時所做投遞的漂流瓶。丹尼爾的父親在幫助他回信。

Daniil said he did not believe that the bottle had actually spent 24 years in the sea because it "would not have survived in the water all that time".
丹尼爾稱他不相信海上竟能漂流24年，由於“海水隨時都有可能將它吞沒”。