因为这篇给我很大的惊讶，基於让更多人了解，我以我有限的英文稍稍翻译一下。 翻错的请不吝指正，没翻到的也欢迎其它网友再接力。 : 另外根据这位记者，MJ有留下200未发表的歌曲给他的三位小孩。 : http://tinyurl.com/lk7y5x : 'I'm better off dead. I'm done': How Michael Jackson predicted his death six : months ago : By Ian Halperin : Last updated at 2:08 AM on 28th June 2009 : * Genetic condition had ruined his lungs and left him unable to sing 因为基因遗传上的问题，他的肺已经毁了而且无法再唱歌。 : * He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic 他已经瘦到皮包骨，医生相信他是神经性厌食症。 : * He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted to die 他梦到关於被谋杀的恶梦，而且他想死。 : * He used swine flu as an excuse to avoid coming to England 他以猪流感当做不去英格兰的藉口。 : * He thought he was agreeing to 10 concerts – it was 50 他以为他答应的是十场演唱会--是五十场。 : Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael : Jackson. Had he not been driven – by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and : advisers – to commit to the gruelling 50 concerts in London’s O2 Arena, I : believe he would still be alive today. 不论验屍结果为何，Mike是被贪婪给杀死的。如果不是银行家，经纪人， 医生，和顾问所策划的在伦敦唱50场演唱会的阴谋，我相信他至今还会活着。 : During the last weeks and months of his life, Jackson made desperate attempts : to prepare for the concert series scheduled for next month – a series that : would have earned millions for the singer and his entourage, but which he : could never have completed, not mentally, and not physically. : Michael knew it and his advisers knew it. Anyone who caught even a fleeting : glimpse of the frail old man hiding beneath the costumes and cosmetics would : have understood that the London tour was madness. For Michael Jackson, it was : fatal. 在他生命中最後数个月，他竭力准备那个可以为他还有他周遭的人带进数百万 美元收入的演唱会—一个在心理上和生理上都不可能完成的演唱会。 Mike和他的顾问都知道这演唱会不可能完成。任何人只要瞄到这掩藏在戏服 与化妆之下的虚弱老男人一眼，都会了解这伦敦之旅根本是一种疯狂。对 Mike而言，这是致命的。 : I had more than a glimpse of the real Michael; as an award-winning freelance : journalist and film-maker, I spent more than five years inside his ‘camp’. : Many in his entourage spoke frankly to me – and that made it possible for me : to write authoritatively last December that Michael had six months to live, a : claim that, at the time, his official spokesman, Dr Tohme Tohme, called a ‘ : complete fabrication’. The singer, he told the world, was in ‘fine health’ : . Six months and one day later, Jackson was dead. 我只看到他比一眼多一些些。身为一个得奖的自由记者和制片，我在他的阵营里 花了五年多的时间。他身边的人多半坦白相告於我，也因此使我在去年十二月 可靠地预测了Mike只剩六个月可活。这预测在当时被他的官方发言人， Dr. Tohme称为「彻底的捏造」。Dr. Tohme当时告诉全世界Mike健康状况良好。 六个月又一天之後，Mike过世。 : Some liked to snigger at his public image, and it is true that flamboyant : clothes and bizarre make-up made for a comic grotesque; yet without them, his : appearance was distressing; with skin blemishes, thinning hair and : discoloured fingernails. 有些人对着他的公开形象讪笑，而他华丽劲爆的戏服与夸张诡异的浓妆也的确 是为了漫画式般的怪异风格所创造的。但若非这些，他的外观是非常令人感到 不舒服的:皮肤上的斑点,，稀疏的头发，毫无颜色的指甲。 : I had established beyond doubt, for example, that Jackson relied on an : extensive collection of wigs to hide his greying hair. Shorn of their : luxuriance, the Peter Pan of Neverland cut a skeletal figure. 这段我翻不出来，意思大概是说作者曾经怀疑过Mike使用假发来掩藏灰发。 : It was clear that he was in no condition to do a single concert, let alone : 50. He could no longer sing, for a start. On some days he could barely talk. : He could no longer dance. Disaster was looming in London and, in the opinion : of his closest confidantes, he was feeling suicidal. : To understand why a singer of Jackson’s fragility would even think about : travelling to London, we need to go back to June 13, 2005, when my : involvement in his story began. 很明显地，Mike根本无法应付一场演唱会，何况是五十场。他一开始无法唱歌， 接下来他可能只能勉强说话，然後完全无法跳舞。灾难在伦敦渐渐逼近，他 的一位亲密友人认为，他自己有自杀倾向。 要了解为何像Mike这样脆弱的歌手会想到旅行到伦敦去，我们必须回到 2005.1.13，也就是当我开始介入去了解他的故事的时候。 : As a breaking news alert flashed on CNN announcing that the jury had reached : a verdict in Jackson’s trial for allegedly molesting 13-year-old Gavin : Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch in California, I knew that history had been : made but that Michael Jackson had been broken – irrevocably so, as it proved. : Nor was it the first time that Michael had been accused of impropriety with : young boys. Little more than a decade earlier, another 13-year-old, Jordan : Chandler, made similar accusations in a case that was eventually settled : before trial – but not before the damage had been done to Jackson’s : reputation. (请包容我无法逐字翻译，今天好累) Gavin案中，虽然历史已对此案定论，但Mike已经无法挽救地被打碎了。 这不是Mike第一次被控告对年轻男孩有不恰当的举动(指Jordan案)。 虽然在审判前此案已宣告结束，但对Mike的名声已无可救药地被破坏了。 : Michael had not helped his case. Appearing in a documentary with British : broadcaster Martin Bashir, he not only admitted that he liked to share a bed : with teenagers, mainly boys, in pyjamas, but showed no sign of understanding : why anyone might be legitimately concerned. Mike并没有为自己的案子帮上太多忙。在一个英国广播人的纪录中显示，Mike 不但承认他喜欢穿着睡衣和青少年共分享一张床，并且没有认何迹象显示他了 解为什麽有人对这样的事会有法律上的顾虑。 (OS: Mike你真是好天真喔.....) : I had started my investigation convinced that Jackson was guilty. By the end, : I no longer believed that. 一开始我着手调查时认为Mike是有罪的，但最後我再也不这麽相信了。 (待续.....) 译文不接受媒体复制，欲引述须来信徵得我的同意。 --

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