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There are about 40 different things you can eat in Minecraft, and some of them are kinda icky. Spider eyes, poisonous potatoes, suspicious stew, or any of the raw meats all fall into that category for me. But the ickiest of all is our item of the week – rotten flesh.
Minecraft 中大约有四十种可食用物品，但有些却并不那么让人接受。对我来说，譬如蜘蛛眼、毒马铃薯、迷之炖菜，或是任何一种的生肉都在此行列中。但最让人难以接受的，就是我们本周背包盘点的物品 —— 腐肉。

Rotten flesh was added to Minecraft in beta version 1.8, which also added melons, steak, ender pearls, experience orbs, and Endermen. This patch resolved a weird situation that had existed previously, where zombies dropped feathers, because feathers were needed to make arrows.
在 Beta 版 1.8 时，腐肉连同西瓜、牛排、末影珍珠、经验球和末影人一并被加入了游戏。这次更新解决了向前存在的一种奇怪情况 —— 僵尸会掉落羽毛，因为制造箭需要羽毛。

Chickens were added to drop feathers, and for a while zombies still dropped them too. But eventually zombies were given something else to drop instead. “What should they drop?” the team asked themselves. “Well, what are zombies even made of?” That’s right – rotten flesh.
鸡被加入了游戏，成为羽毛新来源，但一段时间里，僵尸仍然会掉落羽毛。最终僵尸们还是被赋予了新的掉落物。“它们应该会掉落什么呢？”开发团队这么自问道。“唔，那僵尸又是由什么构成的呢？”没错，那就是 —— 腐肉。

Getting your hands on some of that sweet, sweet rotten flesh usually means defeating zombies. But it’s also dropped by drowned, husks, zombie horses, zombie villagers, Zoglins and Zombified Piglins. Basically everything in the zombie family tree. You can also obtain rotten flesh through fishing, in chests, and from tamed cats that sometimes will bring it to you. Lovely.
想要拿到一些新鲜的腐肉通常意味着击杀僵尸。但腐肉也可以从溺尸、尸壳、僵尸马、僵尸村民、僵尸疣猪兽和僵尸猪灵身上获得。简而言之，带“尸”字的一类生物都会掉落腐肉。你也可以通过钓鱼、开箱，或是有时能从驯服的猫那里得到腐肉㈡。太可爱了。

If you’re a committed zombie-slayer, then you’ll eventually start building up a backlog of rotten flesh in your chests and might start to wonder what you should do with it.
如果你是一名坚毅的僵尸杀手的话，那么你的箱子里的腐肉就会最终堆积如山，这也许会让你思考该如何处理这些玩意。

For starters, you might consider eating it – but this is probably a bad idea. While it does restore two chunks of hunger, it has a large chance of giving you the hunger debuff which causes the hunger bar to drop rapidly. On the other hand, you can only get the hunger debuff once, so if you repeatedly cram rotten flesh into your mouth then you can sometimes outpace the hunger drain. Don’t try this at home, kids.
首先，你也许会考虑把它当成食物 —— 但这也许不是个好主意。腐肉确实能恢复两格饱食度，但却同时大概率地给予你“饥饿”的负面效果，让你的饱食度飞速下降。从另一方面来说，由于你只会同时获得一个“饥饿”，所以只要你往嘴里塞得够多够快，饱食度掉落速度就追不上你。注意，谨防孩童在家尝试。

Wolves have much stronger stomachs than humans do, so they can eat rotten flesh just fine. In fact they love it so much that it can be used to breed tamed wolves, heal their wounds, and even make baby wolves grow up faster.
狼的胃可比人的强健多了，所以吃腐肉也没什么大问题。甚至它们还挺爱吃的，因此腐肉就可以用来繁殖被驯养的狼，治疗其创伤，甚至可以让幼狼快高长大。

Finally, if all else fails then novice-level cleric villagers will sometimes buy 32 rotten flesh for one emerald. It’s not entirely clear why they want it. Maybe they have a pack of wolves to feed? Or maybe something more sinister is going on...
如果上述方法还没让你把腐肉消耗完的话，那么有时候新手级的牧师村民会愿意以一颗绿宝石的价格收购三十二块腐肉。也不知道他们要来干嘛。也许他们养了一大群狼？或是某些邪恶的事情正在暗处悄然滋长……

Alright, let’s talk about rotten flesh in the real world – and specifically zombies. The first and most important thing you need to know is that zombies don’t exist in the real world. The word comes from Haitian folklore that was most likely imported from Western Africa – probably a combination of the Kongo words nzambi (meaning god) and zumbi (meaning an object imbued with supernatural powers).
好了，让我们再说说现实世界中的腐肉吧 —— 尤其是僵尸身上的。首先也是最重要的一点是，你得清楚僵尸在现实世界中根本不存在。“僵尸(Zombie)”一词来源于海地的民间传说 —— 很大可能是从西非传入，可能是由班图语词汇 “nzambi”[意思是神(God)]和“zumbi”(意为有超自然力量的物体)组合而成。

The last decade or two has seen zombies appear in films, movies and games that are portrayed as more human – retaining characteristics of the living and even in some cases becoming friends with humans.
近十几二十年来，僵尸的形象出现在影视与游戏中，它们也被描绘地更加人性化 —— 它们留存了活人的特征，甚至有些情境下它们还和人类成为了朋友。

Minecraft’s zombies are more the classic kind – a groaning slob who never helps out with the dishes. You probably wouldn’t consider one your friend, would you? But a golden apple later and who knows?
Minecraft 中的僵尸形象则更为经典 —— 一个只知道吃却不知道帮忙洗碗终日呻吟的懒汉。你大概不会把它们看作是你的朋友，对吧？但拿个金苹果给它们后，谁知道事情会不会出现点转机呢？

注：

1.be all you can be 意为尽你所能，副标题应为尽僵尸所能，结合正文即为最大化利用腐肉，因而翻译为“物尽其用”。

2.当玩家睡觉的时候，驯服的猫会走向它们的主人并在旁边睡觉。当玩家醒来时，驯服的猫也会醒来。被驯服的猫有70%的概率在玩家从床上醒来后给予玩家礼物。                       ——来源：Minecraft 中文Wiki

【封徵 译自官网 2020 年 08 月 06 日发布的 Taking Inventory: Rotten Flesh；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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