来自缅因州的漂流瓶，21年后在苏格兰被发现

A message in a bottle cast out to sea off the coast of Maine in 1998 was found earlier this month on a Scottish island — completing an epic 21-year, 3,000-mile journey, according to reports.

据报道，本月早些时候，在苏格兰的一个小岛上发现了一个漂流瓶，里面装着1998年从缅因州海岸装进去的纸条，这个漂流瓶完成了长达21年、3000英里的史诗般的旅程。

Matt Rhoades was just 13 years old when he delivered the message while vacationing with his family in Well, Maine.

马特·罗德斯(Matt Rhoades)在缅因州韦尔(Well)与家人度假时放下了这个漂流瓶，当时他只有13岁。

The youngster’s simple message read: “Hello, my name is Matt Rhoades. Please write back,” along with his then-New Hampshire address, according to the Gloucester Daily Times.

年轻人简单的留言是：“你好，我叫马特·罗迪斯，请回信。“根据格洛斯特日报报道，留言上还写着他当时在新罕布什尔州的地址。

Rhoades, now a 34-year-old musician living in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was contacted on Twitter earlier this month by Scotland native Mike Bolam, who said he found Rhoades’ long-lost letter during a family trip to the Scottish island of North Uist.

现年34岁的罗迪斯住在马萨诸塞州纽伯里港，本月早些时候，苏格兰籍迈克·博拉姆在Twitter上与他取得联系。博拉姆说他在苏格兰北部乌斯特岛的一次家庭旅行中发现了这个漂流瓶。

Rhodes at first believed Bolam’s message “was spam,” he told the paper.

罗迪斯起初认为博拉姆的信息是“垃圾邮件”，他告诉该报。

But once he saw the photo of the letter, adorned with his adolescent handwriting, he realized it wasn’t a hoax, according to WHDH.

但是当他看到这封信的照片时，他意识到这不是一个骗局。

“There’s my handwriting, everything. All the info. Everything accurate — and I was like, ‘Holy crap, I remember doing this,’” he told the network.

“这是我的笔迹，所有的东西。所有的信息。每件事都很准确——我当时想，‘天哪，我记得我做过这件事，’”他告诉cnn。

“I mean honestly, I probably forgot about it like an hour after I did it. I was like a little kid, and just thinking ‘this is so magical.’ ”

“说实话，我可能在做完一小时后就忘了。我就像一个小孩子，想着‘这太神奇了。’”

Ruminating over his message’s unlikely discovery, Rhoades has one regret.

在反复思考他的漂流瓶不太可能被发现时，罗迪斯有一些遗憾。

“That thing has been floating for most of my life,” he told the Gloucester Daily Times. “Had I known it would be found 20 years later, I would have written something much more substantial.”

他在接受《格洛斯特每日时报》采访时表示:“在我生命的大部分时间里，这个东西一直在漂浮。”“如果我知道它会在20年后被发现，我就会写一些更有意义的东西。”

There appears to be one more chapter in the message in a bottle’s journey, as Rhoades told WHDH that he wants to fly to Scotland to see the letter and meet the message’s receiver.

这个瓶子的旅程，似乎还有新的一章，罗迪斯告诉记者，他想飞到苏格兰去看看信，并见见收信人。