鲸小爱英语

一个有用&有趣&有温度的英语干货分享平台

追风筝的人

阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而在一场风筝比赛后，发生了悲惨不堪的事，阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦，逼走了哈桑，不久自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。为了赎罪，阿米尔再度踏上故乡，希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力，却发现一个惊天谎言，儿时的噩梦再度重演。作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎，读来令人荡气回肠。

经典片段节选

That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

许多年过去了，人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬，然而我终于明白这是错的，因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘，我意识到在过去二十六年里，自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。

To him, the words on the page were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious. Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.

对他而言，书页上的文字无非是一些线条，神秘而不知所云。文字是扇秘密的门，钥匙在我手里。

I probably stood there for under a minute, but, to this day, it was one of the longest minutes of my life. Seconds plodded by, each separated from the next by an eternity. Air grew heavy damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. Baba went on staring me down, and didn't offer to read.

也许我在那儿站了不到一分钟，但时至今日，那依旧是我生命中最漫长的一分钟。时间一秒一秒过去，而一秒与一秒之间，似乎隔着永恒。空气变得沉闷，潮湿，甚至凝固，我呼吸艰难。爸爸继续盯着我，丝毫没有要看一看的意思。

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