I was used to looking at giant snakes in zoos (I always made a beeline for the reptile house), but pythons did not seem so scary to me because they rarely moved.
我以前也在动物园里看过巨蟒(我常常直奔爬行动物馆),但蟒蛇们并不能带来这样的恐惧,因为他们很少动。
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-year-old, he was a giant.
现在,我知道三十五年多前那个炎热的夏夜和我坐在旧木楼梯上的那个男人个子并不高,但是对于一个五岁的孩子来说,他就是个巨人。
And I am literally sitting, in a burnt-orange alcove designed to frame a giant plant pot, because this is the one nook of the pool where I can be up to my chin in the water and also not be in the sun.
事实上我是坐在一座橘红色的凉亭下,凉亭是用来保护一个大花盆的,这也是水池的一个隐蔽角落。 我的下巴淹到水里,但是晒不到太阳。
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