
Chinese: 
坐落於華盛頓特區(DC)第二次世界大戰紀念館既莊嚴又雄偉
他確實應該是這樣
但它或許他犯了錯 那就是沒記錄到一個幫助美軍發展的玩笑
這是一件非常驚奇的文化傳播過程  他的名子叫做Kilroy
一個士兵在全世界畫上了這樣的圖案並且著 "Kilroy 在這裡"
在美軍到達那些地方以前 Kilroy圖案 已經傳播到世界各地
Kilroy在沖繩島、卡薩布蘭卡、西西里島跟美軍打招呼  也在柏林招待他們
不論士兵們走到哪裡 即使去到不熟悉的地方 連看都不看懂也不讀不出來文字的地方
就在可行的平面上都畫上"Kilroy"的圖案與簽上名子
 
雖然他只是惡作劇 但他也做了某種確定
一個英雄曾經到過這裡並且創作了Kilroy
我們並不瞭解Kilroy 的來歷
這張圖呈現了戰時英國與全世界的航路  Chad先生用它抱怨英國發放
吝嗇的糧食
一些觀點指出 這件事情搞砸了"Kilroy 在這裡"這樣的圖再現  是誰扼殺了Kilroy?
 

English: 
The World War II memorial in DC is imposing
and serious.
And it should be.
But it would be a mistake to forget the joke
that helped keep GIs going.
It was amazingly similar to a modern meme.
And his name was Kilroy.
Soldiers scrawled this face and “Kilroy
Was Here” all around the world.
The joke was that Kilroy, peeking out, had
been everywhere before the GIs got there.
He greeted them in Okinawa and Casablanca,
and in Sicily he cheered them in Berlin.
Everywhere soldiers went, seeing unfamiliar
landmarks and reading signs in languages they
couldn’t speak, they graffitied the same
picture and signed the same name on every
available surface.
He was a joke, but he was also a kind of assurance,
a hero who’d been there before and still
made it out OK.
We don’t really know where Kilroy came from.
The picture showed up around the world — in
England, he was Mr. Chad, where he complained
about skimpy rations.
At some point, that guy was mashed up with
the phrase “Kilroy Was Here.” Who was
Kilroy?

Chinese: 
這個傳奇造船廠的檢查員 "James J. Kilroy" 寫下了"Kilroy 在這裡"
在他所要的檢查的船上
士兵們看到了這件事情 結果就變成了一個玩笑 如同炸彈裝了翅膀一樣到處蔓延開來
就像廁所裡面的文字一樣
真實的James Kilroy 按理說應該贏了名氣 然而 Kilroy 圖案的名氣比他大多了
 
有一個傳聞說在波士坦時候史達林被Kilroy 的的神出鬼沒嚇到  戰後 他出現在電影
威士忌的廣告與新奇的歌曲中
Kilroy在這裡  我們想要Kilroy  即使埃德加胡佛局長也承認它非常的深植人心
"Kilroy在這裡 哈 我是Kilroy!"
今天 Kilroy 已經漸漸從浴室的牆壁上淡去 但你要是去到二戰紀念館
經過噴水池 你不能在這許願 在這旁邊有一塊因為施工而被禁止進入的地區
你可以偷偷看過欄杆 即使是這樣樣的地方 Kilroy已經比你早到了

English: 
The legend’s that a shipyard inspector named
James J. Kilroy wrote “Kilroy Was Here”
on all of his inspected work.
Soldiers saw it and turned it into a joke
that showed up on bomber wings and became
latrine literature.
James Kilroy won a contest for supposedly
being the real Kilroy, but - eh - Kilroy was
bigger than him.
There were rumors Stalin was spooked by Kilroy
graffiti at Potsdam, and after the war he
popped up in movies, whiskey ads, and really
weird novelty songs.
“Kilroy was here. We want Kilroy. And even
Edgar Hoover admits he’s quite a mover — Kilroy
was here. Ha, I’m Kilroy!”
Today, Kilroy’s faded from bathroom walls,
but if you go to the World War II Memorial,
past a fountain you can’t make wishes in,
near an area that’s closed for construction,
you can peer through a fence and see that
even in this place Kilroy got here before you.
