Chapter 1/StarsShineForRAN
the five people you meet in heaven ?The END StarsShineForRAN ?20230608&20220122 about this story ?"here is only a guess,a wish,in some ways,that my uncle,and others like him-----people who felt unimportant here on earth-----------------------realize,finally,how much they mattered and how they were loved" “這只是一個猜測,一個愿望,在某些方面,我的叔叔,和其他像他一樣——那些覺得自己在地球上不重要的人,最終意識到他們有多重要,他們都被愛著” ?"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end.with Eddie dying in the sun.It might seem strange to start a story with an ending.But all endings are also beginnings.We just don't know it at the time.“ 這是一個關于埃迪的故事,故事從結尾開始,從埃迪在陽光下死去開始,以結局開始一個故事可能看起來很奇怪 但過往皆序章,也許只是當時我們并沒有意識到 The last hour of Eddie's Iife At Ruby Pier,an amusement park by a great gray ocean,where Eddie would be killed in About Eddie? With 50 minutes left on earth they saw him summer after summer.one of those faces you associate(在頭腦中與……聯(lián)系在一起) with a place 人們總是在一個又一個的夏天中見到他,總是會讓你回想起你曾到往的地方 Once,he had been strong enough to lift a carousel(旋轉)horse in each arm.That was a long time ago 曾經(jīng)他也強壯的能一只手抬起旋轉木馬,只不過那是很久之前 Forty minutes until his death? mumbled喃喃而語,咕噥cursed咒罵yelled叫喊groaned抱怨squawked厲聲的叫著stutters哼哼唧唧said說squealed尖叫grunted哼screaming呼喊 --- they drew in like cold hands to a fire 他們?nèi)绫涞氖稚煜蚧? thirty-four minutes to live thirty minutes left?? maybe they won't catch the halibut(比目魚),but they catch other things important twenty-six minutes to live?? before he meet Marguerite sixteen minutes to live ? every life have one-true love snapshot(快照,特寫).For Eddie,it comes in a warm September night after thunderstorm(暴雨).When the boardwalk was spongy(像海綿的)with water 每個人都會有一個關于真愛的特寫瞬間,對于艾迪來說,這個瞬間出現(xiàn)在溫暖的九月,在那個下過暴雨的晚上,海濱的木板上積滿了綿綿的雨水 the same arterial(動脈的)burst(爆炸) of love心動 ?fourteen ?minutes until his death no story sits by itself.sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely,like stones beneath (在……下面)a river 沒有一個故事是獨立的,它們有時在拐角相遇,有時他們一個壓著一個,重重疊疊,就像河底的卵石 out on the ocean,diamonds(鉆石) of sunlight danced on the water,and Eddie stared at (凝視)their nimble(靈活的) movement ?海上,陽光如鉆石般在水面舞蹈,愛迪凝視著它們輕靈的姿態(tài) Eddie felt her hands on his shoulders.He squeezed (擠壓)his eyes tightly(緊緊的),to bring the memory close 愛迪感覺瑪格麗特的手搭在了她的肩膀上,他緊閉雙眼,想把記憶攏的更近 twelve minutes to live a young girl wants Eddie to made her an animal ??how do people choose their final words?Do they realize their gravity(質量,分量)?Are they fated(命中注定的) to be wise 人們會怎樣選擇他們的臨終遺言呢?他們會知道說這些話的分量嗎?這些話注定會是智慧的嗎? as far as he tell,when your time came,it came,and that was that,you might say something smart on your way out,but you might just as easily say something stupid 就他的理解,你的大限該來的時候就來了,僅此而已,在行將上路之際,你同樣可能說些愚蠢的話 ? ???about this accident at a most precise(精確的) moment巧合 ----- in those final memonts,Eddie seemed to hear the whole world:distant screaming,waves,music,a rush of wind,a low,a loud,ugly voice blasting(迸發(fā)) through his chest(胸膛) 在生命的最后時刻里,艾迪好像聽到了整個世界的聲音:遠處的尖叫聲,海浪聲,音樂聲,以及一個難聽的,忽高忽低的聲音,他意識到,原來那是從他自己的胸腔里迸發(fā)出來的聲音 A stunning impact Ablinding flash of light And then,nothing 一場震撼的撞擊 一道炫目閃光然后 一片空寂 ?--- (Finish this chapter) 公眾號:StarsShineForRAN