因為這篇給我很大的驚訝，基於讓更多人瞭解，我以我有限的英文稍稍翻譯一下。 翻錯的請不吝指正，沒翻到的也歡迎其它網友再接力。 : 另外根據這位記者，MJ有留下200未發表的歌曲給他的三位小孩。 : 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 因為基因遺傳上的問題，他的肺已經毀了而且無法再唱歌。 : * He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic 他已經瘦到皮包骨，醫生相信他是神經性厭食症。 : * He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted to die 他夢到關於被謀殺的惡夢，而且他想死。 : * He used swine flu as an excuse to avoid coming to England 他以豬流感當做不去英格蘭的藉口。 : * He thought he was agreeing to 10 concerts – it was 50 他以為他答應的是十場演唱會--是五十場。 : 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. 不論驗屍結果為何，Mike是被貪婪給殺死的。如果不是銀行家，經紀人， 醫生，和顧問所策劃的在倫敦唱50場演唱會的陰謀，我相信他至今還會活著。 : 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. 在他生命中最後數個月，他竭力準備那個可以為他還有他週遭的人帶進數百萬 美元收入的演唱會—一個在心理上和生理上都不可能完成的演唱會。 Mike和他的顧問都知道這演唱會不可能完成。任何人只要瞄到這掩藏在戲服 與化妝之下的虛弱老男人一眼，都會瞭解這倫敦之旅根本是一種瘋狂。對 Mike而言，這是致命的。 : 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。身為一個得獎的自由記者和製片，我在他的陣營裡 花了五年多的時間。他身邊的人多半坦白相告於我，也因此使我在去年十二月 可靠地預測了Mike只剩六個月可活。這預測在當時被他的官方發言人， Dr. Tohme稱為「徹底的捏造」。Dr. Tohme當時告訴全世界Mike健康狀況良好。 六個月又一天之後，Mike過世。 : 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. 有些人對著他的公開形象訕笑，而他華麗勁爆的戲服與誇張詭異的濃妝也的確 是為了漫畫式般的怪異風格所創造的。但若非這些，他的外觀是非常令人感到 不舒服的:皮膚上的斑點,，稀疏的頭髮，毫無顏色的指甲。 : 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. 這段我翻不出來，意思大概是說作者曾經懷疑過Mike使用假髮來掩藏灰髮。 : 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. 很明顯地，Mike根本無法應付一場演唱會，何況是五十場。他一開始無法唱歌， 接下來他可能只能勉強說話，然後完全無法跳舞。災難在倫敦漸漸逼近，他 的一位親密友人認為，他自己有自殺傾向。 要瞭解為何像Mike這樣脆弱的歌手會想到旅行到倫敦去，我們必須回到 2005.1.13，也就是當我開始介入去瞭解他的故事的時候。 : 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. (請包容我無法逐字翻譯，今天好累) Gavin案中，雖然歷史已對此案定論，但Mike已經無法挽救地被打碎了。 這不是Mike第一次被控告對年輕男孩有不恰當的舉動(指Jordan案)。 雖然在審判前此案已宣告結束，但對Mike的名聲已無可救藥地被破壞了。 : 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並沒有為自己的案子幫上太多忙。在一個英國廣播人的紀錄中顯示，Mike 不但承認他喜歡穿著睡衣和青少年共分享一張床，並且沒有認何跡象顯示他瞭 解為什麼有人對這樣的事會有法律上的顧慮。 (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. 一開始我著手調查時認為Mike是有罪的，但最後我再也不這麼相信了。 (待續.....) 譯文不接受媒體複製，欲引述須來信徵得我的同意。 --

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