大家做好一年比一年糟糕的準備，凜冬將至。就像《活著》中的有慶，穿上鞋跑步得挨打，光著腳挨罵。——有感于某字幕組被“焚書坑儒”。

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Author: Tim Vicary

書蟲原文：The Elephant Man

一百年前的世界與現(xiàn)在的截然不同。大多數(shù)人生活在沒有電的陰冷、潮濕的環(huán)境中。他們從不上醫(yī)院，往往死得很慘。

//以前真有人生活在陰溝中吧，不是比喻。

A creature sat on a chair behind a table. I say a creature, because it was not a man or a woman,

//原來很久以前就有販賣好奇的，割一波韭菜就走，古老的職業(yè)。

I am a doctor, so I know a lot about accidents and ill people. I see horrible, ugly things every day.But this creature, this thing, was the worst of all.

//醫(yī)生見過眾多糟糕的病人，沒有一位像這個生物一樣可怕，只是因為多看了一眼，便再也不能當作未見過而無所作為。

So we can't stay in a town very long. We usually move every week.'

//對店主來說是周游世界并賺錢，對象人來說不過是從一個黑屋到另一個黑屋。

Then the police get angry because people are afraid. Sometimes they take us to prison.

//警察采取了最簡單的方式。

And behind him, I could see three young boys. One of the boys laughed.

//已經(jīng)挑了冬天的早上啟程，還是有熊孩子，起得真早。

I gave him a card with my name on. Then I thought, 'That was no good. This man can't read.' But Merrick took the card and looked at it very carefully. Then he put it in his trousers pocket.

//細心的醫(yī)生，努力的象人。

I told the Hospital Chairman… and then he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times newspaper.

//還可以寫信給報紙募捐嗎

The readers of The Times are very kind people. They gave us a lot of money.

//作者可能是泰晤士報的忠實粉絲，攤牌了。

One room was a bathroom, so he could have a bath every day.?

//淋浴一間，可以天天淋浴，實實在在的幸福小事。

Soon his skin was much better, and there was no horrible smell.

//皮膚問題好轉(zhuǎn)，暗示身體逐漸健康。

'Lighthouses have sea all round them, don't they?' he said. 'Nobody could look at me in a lighthouse, so I would be happy there. And blind people can see nothing, so they couldn't see me, could they?'

//無人的燈塔是我故鄉(xiāng)

'This is your home now. Don't you understand? You can stay here all your life.'?

//重讀 home，好消息已然傳達清楚。

Merrick had a lot of friends now, but he was more like a child than a man.

//名氣越大，越像少年。

One minute they were there, and the next minute I couldn't see them.

//魚戲蓮葉東，魚戲蓮葉西。

his heavy head came off the bed, and he broke his neck. He died very quickly.

//死得很快，沒有痛苦。