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It works a little something like -- this is a recent Google search for four in the morning.
這是結果，請看最近的一個谷歌搜索。搜索：凌晨4點
Results vary, of course. This is pretty typical.
當然搜索的結果不一，這是其中最典型的一個。
The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning,"
最上面的10個結果中，4個是Faron Young的歌：“現在是凌晨4點。”
three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning,"
3個是Judi Dench的電影：“凌晨4點。”
one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning."
1個是Wislawa Szymborska的詩：“凌晨4點。”
But what, you may ask, do a Polish poet, a British Dame, a country music hall of famer all have in common
但你們也許會問，一個波蘭詩人，一個英國貴婦，一個鄉村音樂圣殿的歌星間有什么共同的地方？
besides this totally excellent Google ranking?
除了他們在谷歌搜索結果上都有很高的排名以外
Well, let's start with Faron Young -- who was born incidentally in 1932.
我們從Faron Young開始吧，他不小心生于：1932年。
In 1996, he shot himself in the head on December ninth -- which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday.
1996年12月9日他往自己頭上開槍自殺那天--正巧是Judi Dench的生日。
But he didn't die on Dench's birthday.
但是他并沒在Dench的生日死去。
He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed
他滯留到第二天下午才絕別人世
to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 64
終年64歲，據稱是開槍自傷--
which incidentally is how old Alberto Giacometti was when he died.
碰巧的是，阿爾貝托·賈科梅蒂也是這年齡去世的。
Where was Wislawa Szymborska during all this?
那這段時間Wislawa Szymborska都在干什么呢？
She has the world's most absolutely watertight alibi.
她有著世上最無懈可擊的不在場證明，
On that very day, December 10, 1996 while Mr. Four in the Morning,
1996年12月10日那天，當凌晨4點鐘先生，
Faron Young, was giving up the ghost in Nashville, Tennessee,
Faron Young在田納西州納什維爾向鬼神投降的時候，
Ms. Four in the Morning -- or one of them anyway -- Wislawa Szymborska
凌晨4點鐘女士中的一位，Wislawa Szymborska
was in Stockholm, Sweden, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
在瑞典首都斯德哥爾摩，接受諾貝爾文學獎。
100 years to the day after the death of Alfred Nobel himself. Coincidence? No, it's creepy.
那也是阿爾弗雷德諾貝爾本人去世100年紀念日。巧合？不，那是“鬼異”。
