Never Let Me Go书摘

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  momo (peace) 组长 楼主 2011-11-27 09:54:51

  Norfolk came to be a real source of comfort for us, probably much more than we admitted at the time, and that was why we were still talking about it--albeit as a sort of joke--when we were much older. And that's why, years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

  Norfolk(地名，在英国)真正地成为了我们获得安慰的来源，甚至可能超过了我们当时认为的程度。而那就是为什么很多年以后，Tommy和我在Norfolk海边的小镇找到了我当年丢失的磁带的复制品时，我们不只觉得滑稽；我们两个都感知到一股强烈的感情，一种过去的愿望——去再次相信曾经与我们心灵相近的东西。

  pg.66 bottom to pg.67 top.

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  momo (peace) 组长 楼主 2011-11-27 11:31:50

  The earlier years--the ones I've just been telling you about--they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow. But those last years feel different. They weren't unhappy exactly--I've got plenty of memories I treasure from them--but they were more serious, and in some ways darker. Maybe I've exaggerated it in my mind, but I've got an impression of things changing rapidly around then, like day moving into night.

  早年的时光——那些我一直在谈论的时光——它们边界模糊地联系在一起成为一段黄金时光，当我想起这段时光，即使是想到那些不怎么如意的事情，我也控制不住自己愉悦的情绪。但是之后的那些年就不同了。确切地说他们并不是不如意——这些年我也有许多珍贵的回忆——但是它们更加严肃，其实也更加黑暗。也许我在自己头脑中夸张化了，但是我的印象就是那之后事物变化飞快，像是白天周转到了黑夜。

  pg.77

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  momo (peace) 组长 楼主 2011-12-19 23:01:44

  Just Ruth, in the middle, astride the wall, remains silent. She keeps the smile on her face, but hardly moves. There's a breeze messing up her hair, and the bright winter sun's making her crinkle up her eyes, so you're not sure if she's smiling at our antics, or just grimacing in the light.

  只有Ruth, 坐在中间，两腿叉开跨在墙上，保持着安静。她的脸上一直微笑着，然而却没有没有变化。微风撩乱她的头发，明亮的冬日使她皱起眼睛，所以你不知道她是不是在笑我们的滑稽，还是仅仅在光线的撩拨下扭曲了面容。

  pg.160

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