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When the stall was assembled, the candy seller offered the boy the first sweet he had made for the day.
搭好售貨棚子之后，甜食商販把做好的第一份甜食給了男孩。
The boy thanked him, ate it, and went on his way.
他心滿意足地吃了，謝過(guò)商販，繼續(xù)往前走。
When he had gone only a short distance, he realized that, while they were erecting the stall, one of them had spoken Arabic and the other Spanish.
走出一段路之后，他才想起，兩人在搭售貨棚子的時(shí)候，一個(gè)講阿拉伯語(yǔ)，一個(gè)講西班牙語(yǔ)。
And they had understood each other perfectly well.
而他們卻完全理解了對(duì)方的意思。
There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought.
除了語(yǔ)言之外，還存在著另外一種表達(dá)方式，男孩想，
I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people.
我已經(jīng)在羊群身上體驗(yàn)了這種方式，現(xiàn)在正在人類身上體驗(yàn)這一點(diǎn)。
He was learning a lot of new things.
他正在學(xué)習(xí)一些新的事物。
Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before.
這些事物他以前曾經(jīng)體驗(yàn)過(guò)，但是，仍然是新事物，因?yàn)樗?dāng)時(shí)對(duì)所經(jīng)歷的這些事物熟視無(wú)睹。
And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them.
之所以熟視無(wú)睹，是因?yàn)閷?duì)它們習(xí)以為常了。
He realized: If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
要是我掌握了這種不用語(yǔ)言的表達(dá)方式，我就能解讀整個(gè)世界。
Relaxed and unhurried, he resolved that he would walk through the narrow streets of Tangier.
男孩決定不慌不忙、心平氣和地在丹吉爾狹窄的街巷中轉(zhuǎn)一轉(zhuǎn)。
Only in that way would he be able to read the omens.
只有以這種方式，他才能發(fā)現(xiàn)所有的預(yù)兆。
He knew it would require a lot of patience, but shepherds know all about patience.
做到這一點(diǎn)需要極大的耐心，不過(guò)耐心是一個(gè)牧羊人首先要具備的品質(zhì)。
Once again he saw that, in that strange land, he was applying the same lessons he had learned with his sheep.
圣地亞哥再次發(fā)現(xiàn)，在這個(gè)陌生的地方，他正運(yùn)用著羊群教給他的經(jīng)驗(yàn)。
"All things are one," the old man had said.
“萬(wàn)物皆為一物?！蹦俏焕险哒f(shuō)過(guò)。
