两天后,我收到一封来自南安普敦的电子邮件,发信的这位先生看到了瓶子并且读了我的信,放我的瓶子继续飘下去了。
Two days later, I received an email from a man in Southampton, who had found the bottle and, having read my letter, sent it on its way again.
我喜欢搜集各种各样的瓶子。
我不是物理学家,但我想你们都曾往一个空瓶子的顶部吹过气,并听到过它发出的声音。
I am no physicist, but I imagine you have all blown air over the top of an empty bottle and heard the sound it makes.
我过着普通的生活,就像我的兄弟姐妹们——其他装满了水的瓶子一样。
I had a normal life, the same as all my brothers and sisters — other bottles full of water.
在那一刻,他想:“这可能有点自私,但只要我喝下瓶子里的水,我就一定能活着离开这个房间!”
At that moment he thought, "It might be a little selfish (自私的), but as long as I drink the water in the bottle, I can be sure to leave this room alive!"
我扫视了在我脑海里捕捉的那些瞬间,我想用瓶子把它们装起来,让每一个单独的瞬间像那样。
I get glimpses of those moments captured in my head and I want to bottle them up and have every single moment look like that.
到处躺着的生锈的、空的啤酒罐、破碎的玻璃瓶子让我很难受,我担心地看到海鸥正在啃食被吃剩的不健康的小吃。
Rusty, empty beer cans lay about and some broken glass bottles made me mad. I was worried to see unhealthy leftover snacks being eaten by sea gulls.
问题:我一直都引用瓶装水,但是不停听到,一些瓶子含危险的化学物质。
Q: I drink bottled water all the time, but I keep hearing that some bottles contain dangerous chemicals.
我敢肯定成立公司的时候,你们会说这个瓶子一半是满的。
And I guarantee you when you start a company, you will say this bottle is half-full.
我紧紧的抓着瓶子,怕他让我将它倒入杯子,破坏我这实现的梦,他没有那样做。
I held the coke bottle tightly; fearful he would make me pour it into a cup, ruining this dream come true. He didn't.
我尝试的九种精制种籽油,刚从瓶子里倒出来时几乎没有味道。
Fresh out of the bottle, the nine refined seed oils I tested were almost odorless.
我刚酿了24瓶苹果酒,可是当我买回瓶子、塞子、酵母、榨汁机和蒸馏器后,才发现这是有生以来最贵的苹果酒。
I have just brewed 24 bottles of home-made cider, and by the time I had bought the bottles and the stoppers and the yeast and the press and the alembicks, it was the most expensive cider ever made.
我找出一些用过的塑料瓶子,然后灌满水。
I pulled a few plastic bottles out of our recycling bag and filled them with water.
上图:绿色的瓶子来自KlassKuiken,是由葡萄酒瓶再生制作的。是我在荷兰设计周买的。
Image above: The green bottle is a re-blown wine bottle by Klass Kuiken, which I fell in love with at Dutch Design Week.
所以我请我的两个外孙Ned和Will注意这个瓶子,如果看到它就告诉我它是什么时候到的,哪怕这段路要走上一年。
So I asked my two grandsons, Ned and Will, to watch out for the bottle and let me know if and when it arrived, even if it took a year.
所以为了减少面临的挫折,并且真正在打扫和重新布置厨房时找到一些乐趣,我把它分成一个星期的任务,一天清理冰箱,另一天清理瓶子和烤面包机,柜子顶和架子也分为一天,今天是微波炉和烤箱。
I did the fridge one day, the kettle and toaster on another, the counter tops and shelves on yet another. Today is the microwave and the oven.
上图:这个古董金属框里面有我祖父收藏的45唱片,一个金属盖子玻璃瓶(masonjar),瓶子里面装的是一团在Etsy上买的线。
Image above: This vintage metal bin is filled with some 45 records from my grandfather's collection and a mason jar that holds a ball of twine from Etsy.
在做一堂学术讲座背后,我试图把我自己装进一个瓶子里,希望有一天这个瓶子会被冲上沙滩让我的孩子们看到。
Under the ruse of giving an academic lecture, I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children.
他表示:“这是重要的体验,从瓶子上斯标签是非常的枯燥,但会使我思考‘看看所有这些垃圾,是谁制造的?’”
"It was an important experience," he said. "Peeling the labels off bottles was extremely boring, but it made me think 'Look at all that garbage."
我一边说着,一边埋头看着手里柠檬水瓶子,试验着要转多少圈才能用我的小指把瓶盖打开。
I looked at the lemonade bottle as I spoke, tracing the circle of the opening with my pinkie finger.
我对慈济知之不多不便发表什么。但他们的“瓶子到毯子”的活动更象是英国慈善商店的回收形式。
I don't know enough about Tzu Chi to endorse them, but their bottles-to-blankets activity seems a grittier form of the recycling done by charity shops in the UK.
我喜欢你的两只小瓶子,但我不喜欢最小的那一只。
I like your two small bottles, but I don't like the smallest (one).
“她告诉我氟化物可以保护牙齿。她还说要喂孩子健康的食物,并且不要在孩子上床睡觉的时候放一个瓶子在他嘴上,”玛丽亚说。
"She told me how fluoride protects teeth. She also said to feed my baby healthy foods and not to put my baby to bed with a bottle," said Maria.
“幸好我有防晒霜”我想,与此同时我用它涂抹全身,没有仔细阅读瓶子上的说明。
'Good that i got my sun block with me, ' i thought, as i applied it all over, without looking at the bottle.
我找到两个装有色指甲油的瓶子,其中一个里面只有几滴鲜红色液体,实际上那是红墨水。
I found two bottles of colored nail varnish. One contained only a few drops of a bright red liquid, which was in fact red ink.
每次看见独特优美线条的香水瓶子,我都会伫足。
Lines every time he saw a unique and beautiful perfume bottles, I would Zhuzu.
在路上,我撒掉了许多瓶子里的水,最后回到家时只剩下很少了。
I spill water from my water jar as I walk on my way. Very little remains for my home.
当我把瓶子放回去的时候,我才发现这是泻药。
As I was putting the bottles away I noticed one of them was a laxative.
你听见我说什么了。我都看见了。你刚才把什么东西倒进了罗恩的饮料。现在那瓶子还在你手里攥着呢!
You heard me. I saw you. You just tipped something into Ron's drink. You've got the bottle in your hand right now!
你听见我说什么了。我都看见了。你刚才把什么东西倒进了罗恩的饮料。现在那瓶子还在你手里攥着呢!
You heard me. I saw you. You just tipped something into Ron's drink. You've got the bottle in your hand right now!
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