As, I don't know if you Jews out there, I'm sure, at some

我不知道你们当中的犹太人我相信
point, have done this, as I have, been drawn to Slovakia or

像我一样做过这样的事跑到斯洛伐克
Ukraine to find the ancestral home,

或者乌克兰寻找自己的故乡
and that's what Jonathan Safran Foer

乔纳森·萨法兰·佛耳在这本书里
is doing in this book.

就是这样做的
So, in the, kind of, modern-day world, there are a number of really cool characters.

在现代的世界中有几个很精彩的人物
The main one is the hero, Jonathan Safran Foer, who is also

主要的就是主人公乔纳森·萨法兰·佛耳
referred to as the "spoiled Jew"

也被称为"宠坏的犹太人"
and the "ingenious Jew."

和"精明的犹太人"
The other character is his humble translator,

还有一个人物是谦卑的翻译家
Alexander Perchov,

亚历山大·普乔夫
who learned English exclusively through the use of a thesaurus

他的英文是阅读同类词词典学会的