前一个晚上,我第二个孩子的饭菜放在饭桌上都要凉掉了,可他还坐在房间里,于是我发信息给他,说:“饭菜已经煮好了,马上给我下来!”
The night before, as his food sat cooling on the dining room table and he sat in his bedroom, I had texted my middle son: "Dinner ready now!"
他要求静下来,并宣布下一首歌是献给我们的。
He called for quiet and announced that the next song was in our honour.
我哥哥从乡下来看我,给我带来了满满一袋新鲜水果。
My brother came to see me from the country, bringing me a full of fresh fruit.
当我就要停下来不跑放弃赛跑的时候,我听到全班的人都在给我加油,这给了我力量继续比赛。
When I was about to stop running and quit the race, I heard the whole class cheering me on, which gave me great strength to continue.
然后休斯顿,地球上的控制中心,打电话给我,让我用胶带把扶手的底部粘上,然后把它从望远镜上拉下来。
Then Houston, the control centre on the earth, called up and told me to use the tape to tape the bottom of the handrail and pull it off the telescope.
在接下来的几个月里,我写信给我的朋友、医生、老师和育儿榜样。
In the following months, I wrote to my friends, doctors, teachers and parenting role models.
研究的进展自然而然给我引出一条道来,我就沿着这条道走了下来。
The way research works is, it takes you down a road. You then follow that road.
但是如果真正的读者花时间坐下来给我写信怎么办?
But what about when real readers take the time to sit down and write to me?
每次我们停下来写点东西时,另一个人会突然出现在我们面前,问什么我们为哪个出版物服务并给我们提供报价。
Every time we stop to write something down, another person pops us in front of us, asking what publication we're from and offering us a quote.
在接下来的四年里漂泊了一阵,我到了布宜诺斯艾利斯,在那儿,一位朋友给我介绍了一份在当地餐馆做寿司主厨的工作。
I floundered a bit for the next four years. I moved to Buenos Aires, where a friend found me a job as a sushi chef in a local restaurant.
宁静却有着相反的作用,它使世界慢了下来,允许我们集中注意,给我们时间去沉思什么是最要紧的。
Stillness has the opposite effect. It slows the world down, allows us to focus, gives us time for contemplation, for what matters most.
他们全笑起来,接着我对他们说:‘瞧,我选择要活下来。给我动手术,把我当成个活人而不是死人来医治。’
Over their laughter, I told them. "I am choosing to live." Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.
尽管那可能是因为后视镜再一次滑下来歪到一边,给我呈现了一幅乘客位仪表盘通风口的清晰景象。
Though that could have been because the rear-view mirror had slipped down and sideways once more, giving me a clear view of the passenger side dashboard air-vent.
我知道奶奶本可以花掉这些零钱,但是她却总是把它们攒下来,在我们去看望她的时候分给我们。
I am sure Granny could have used those pennies herself but she saved them to give us when we came to visit.
而一个演员即使在他的巅峰状态,也只是给我们留下了一张照片,他的真实自我、动作、沉默、爱情的喘息并不会流传下来。
At best the actor will leave us a photograph, and nothing of what he was himself, his gestures and his silences, his gasping or his panting with love, will come down to us.
他带我们到贝都因首领那里去喝茶,给我们看祖先流传下来的雕刻,还有他的骆驼。
He took us for tea with a Bedouin chief and showed us ancient carvings of his ancestors and their camels.
他们给我们留下来许许多多美好的回忆,使这个世界变得如此美丽。
Lots and lots of wonderful memories they have left us with, making this world ever so beautiful.
我在接下来的两周在特拉维夫寻找可以证明我是正确的公司和技术活动。如果你找到了,给我写信。
But I'm in Tel Aviv for the next two weeks looking for the company and the tech movement that will prove me right.
这是一个小小的胜利,也给我离开人群坐下来沉思的机会。
A miniature conquest of sorts, it was also an opportunity to sit and ponder away from the group.
谢谢你这封如此美丽的信,同时也感谢你妈妈帮忙写下来并寄给我。
Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me.
接下来我们回到了我的住所,开着别人捐助给我的电动轮椅到院子里转了转。
Later we came back to my place and took turns driving an electric wheelchair someone donated to me around the courtyard.
下次,我会告诉你们更多关于接下来几周的事,我想你们该吃午餐了,有人带了卡给我签吗?
Next time I'll tell you more about the coming weeks but I think you'll lunch is anyone who has a card for me to sign?
天暗了下来,从山岭清爽的空气里,星辰闪耀出了美妙的光辉,父亲指着星座给我看,或是给我上天文课。
As dusk came on the stars blazed out wonderfully through the clear mountain atmosphere, and my father showed me the constellations or treated me to an astronomical discourse.
接下来,这是给我最小的儿子的重要信息:“我今晚要晚点下班”、“你的棒球训练取消了”、“你欠我的10磅什么时候还?”
Then there are the crucial messages I need to pass on to my eldest: "I'm working late tonight"; "Your rugby training is cancelled"; "Where's the 10 quid you owe me?"
接下来的30分钟,这个大家伙给我们讲了很多矿上的闲话。
The big guy then spends the next 30 minutes or so filling us in on the mining gossip.
我起身去拿在互联网上打印下来的目击者陈述,大卫把乔纳森的博客读给我听。互联网真是个可怕的东西。
David was reading aloud to me from Jonathan's blog as I went and got the printouts of witness accounts I had found on that horrible thing called the Web.
接下来的一段骑车旅程给我足够多的机会来反思。
The subsequent bicycle ride to Bukhara provided ample opportunity to reflect on things.
接下来的一段骑车旅程给我足够多的机会来反思。
The subsequent bicycle ride to Bukhara provided ample opportunity to reflect on things.
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