“He’s arranged everything, ” Abrahim said.
“他会安排所有的事情，”亚伯拉罕说。
Abrahim and my father stopped going to the port at night.
亚伯拉罕和我父亲晚上不再去港口了。
"When the fighting breaks out here," Abrahim told him, "they'll attack the port first."
“一旦这里开战，”亚伯拉罕说，“他们将首先袭击港口。”
He went up to him and said, in perfect English, "Hello." My name is Abrahim, like the prophet.
他走上前，用纯正的英语说，“你好，我叫亚伯拉罕，就是先知的名字。”
When my father told Abrahim the next day, his response was simple: "Don't think about it too much."
第二天，当父亲告诉亚伯拉罕的时候，他的回答非常简单：“不要多想。”
He was thinking whether or not to say this to Abrahim when he heard the first distant rumbling over his head.
正当他开始考虑是不是要对亚伯拉罕说出来的时候，一阵遥远的轰鸣声掠过头顶。
“We’ve worked together many times over the years, ” Abrahim told my father, although he never explained what they did.
“过去我们一起合作好多年了，”亚伯拉罕告诉父亲，但是他并没有说那是什么生意。
Abrahim and my father stopped in front of one of the houses, and Abrahim pulled back the curtain that served as the door.
亚伯拉罕和我父亲在其中一所房子前面停下了脚步，亚伯拉罕揭开了当作门用的帘子。
A week later, during my father’s mid-afternoon break, Abrahim found him resting in his usual spot in the shade, staring out at the water.
一周以后，下午干活的休息时间，亚伯拉罕在我父亲惯常休息和遥望大海的那个树荫下找到了他。
"They're like children with toys," Abrahim said, pointing out to the desert from the roof of the boarding house, where they were standing.
“他们就像是刚得到玩具的小孩子，”亚伯拉罕说。他们一起站在寄宿公寓的平屋顶上，一面指着沙漠方向。
At least once or twice a week, Abrahim would pick my father up from his room in the evening and walk him down to the docks in order to explain to him how the port town really worked.
每周至少一次，或者两次，亚伯拉罕会从小屋带上父亲，在夜幕下走到港口那边，以便向父亲解释整个小镇是如何运作的。
The one friend he had in town, a man by the name of Abrahim, had told him never to let anyone know how much money he had: "If someone sees you have two dollars, he will think you have twenty."
小镇上一个名叫亚伯拉罕的朋友，曾经告诉他永远不要让任何人知道他的钱：“如果有什么人看到你有两块钱，他就会认为你有二十块。”
The one friend he had in town, a man by the name of Abrahim, had told him never to let anyone know how much money he had: "If someone sees you have two dollars, he will think you have twenty."
小镇上一个名叫亚伯拉罕的朋友，曾经告诉他永远不要让任何人知道他的钱：“如果有什么人看到你有两块钱，他就会认为你有二十块。”
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