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I CAN DO MY OWN work fairly well during most of these chores,
大部分的家務活，我都能很好地完成。
and so I concentrate on Melville.
所以我把注意力集中在梅爾維爾的出題上。
("Discuss the similarity of the alienation theme in Bartleby the Scrivener and Kafka's Metamorphosis.")
（“討論《文書巴托爾比》與卡夫卡的《變形記》中兩個主題的相似性。”
But I am soon sidetracked.
但我很快分了神。
Unfortunately, I had not counted on the arrival of the "bib-bibs." ("Bib-bibs" are birds.)
我萬萬沒有想到Bib-bibs會來（Bib-bibs是一種鳥）。
"Bib-bibs, bib-bibs!" shrieks Meghan, her eyes alive with expectation.
“Bib-bibs，Bib-bibs！”梅根尖叫著，眼睛里充滿了期待。
She insists that I go with her to the window.
她堅持要我陪她到窗口。
"In a second. Just let me finish this question.
“等一下，我要問你一個問題。
Have you read Kafka's Metamorphosis, Meghan? You haven't?
你讀過卡夫卡的《變形記》嗎，梅根？沒有讀過吧?
You'd really enjoy it."
你會喜歡的?！?/div>
The sarcasm leaves no mark, and she pulls me by the hand (two fingers, actually) toward the window.
話一點不起作用，她拉著我的手（實際上是兩根手指）走向窗口。
I see myself as a slow-wit in some novel, being led oaflike to watch the bib-bibs.
我把自己看作是某些小說中的弱智，被牽著去看bib-bibs。
And we do watch them.
我們看著這些鳥，
They chatter incessantly and leap back and forth on the lawn just outside our apartment window.
喋喋不休，在公寓窗外的草坪上跳來跳去。
Meghan is absorbed, but as I watch them,
梅根被吸引住了，但當我看著這些鳥的時候，
I wonder whether I parked the car under a tree last night.
我在想昨晚我有沒有把車停在樹下。
Suddenly she bolts from the room (she seldom walks),
突然她沖出房間（她很少走路），
and I hear her naked feet slapping against the wooden floor outside.
我聽見她赤裸的雙腳拍打著外面木地板的聲音。
She returns with Dumpty.
她把Dumpty帶回來了。
She holds him up to the window, stretching him out by his two pathetic, triangular arms and whispering into his nonexistent ear,
梅根雙手環繞著把它抱到窗前，對著它那不存在的耳朵低聲說：
"Bib-bibs, Hindy, bibbibs!" Dumpty smiles.
“Bib-bibs Hindy bibbibs !”Dumpty 帶著微笑。
It's a much wider smile than it used to be.
笑容比以前更甜了。
