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He glanced over at her. She was watching him and her eyes were bright. "Look," he said, taking a reasonable tone, "this is stupid. If you were black you wouldn't be you." As he said this he realized it was absolutely true. There was no possible way of arguing with the fact that she would not be herself if she were black.
他看了妻子一眼，她正看著他，雙眼亮晶晶的。“你看，”他以一種理智的語(yǔ)調(diào)說(shuō)，“這很愚蠢。如果你是黑人，你就不是你了。”當(dāng)他說(shuō)這句話的時(shí)候，他覺(jué)得這絕對(duì)正確。如果她是黑人，她就不是她自己了。這是一個(gè)事實(shí)，事實(shí)勝于雄辯。
"I know," she said, "but let's just say."
“我知道，”她說(shuō)，“但是我們只是假設(shè)。”
He took a deep breath. He had won the argument but he still felt cornered. "Say what?" he asked.
他深吸了一口氣，他已經(jīng)贏得了這場(chǎng)爭(zhēng)辯，但是他仍然覺(jué)得被逼得無(wú)法脫身。“假設(shè)什么？”他問(wèn)。
"That I'm black, but still me, and we fall in love. Will you marry me?"
“假設(shè)我是黑人，但我還是我，而且我們相愛(ài)了。你會(huì)娶我嗎？”
He thought about it.
他想了想。
"Well?" she said. Her eyes were even brighter. "Will you marry me?"
“說(shuō)呀？”她說(shuō)，她的眼睛更亮了，“你會(huì)娶我嗎？”
"I'm thinking," he said.
“我正想著呢，”他說(shuō)。
"You won't, I can tell."
“我能看出來(lái)你不會(huì)的。”
"Let's not move too fast on this," he said. "There are lots of things to consider. We don't want to do something we would regret for the rest of our lives."
“不要這么快下結(jié)論，”他說(shuō)，“有許多情況需要考慮。誰(shuí)也不想做會(huì)讓自己抱憾終生的事。”
"No more considering. Yes or no?"
“別再考慮了。會(huì)還是不會(huì)？”
"Since you put it that way—"
“你要這么說(shuō)的話……”
"Yes or no."
“會(huì)還是不會(huì)？”
"Jesus, Ann. All right, No."
“天哪，安，好吧，不會(huì)。”
She said, "Thank you," and walked from the kitchen into the living room. A moment later he heard her turning the pages of a magazine. He knew that she was too angry to be actually reading it, but she didn't snap through the pages the way he would have done. She turned them slowly, as if she were studying every word. She was demonstrating her indifference to him, and it had the effect he knew she wanted it to have. It hurt him.
她說(shuō)了句“謝謝”，然后離開(kāi)廚房進(jìn)了客廳。過(guò)了一會(huì)兒，他聽(tīng)見(jiàn)她翻雜志的聲音。他知道她太生氣了，根本看不進(jìn)雜志，但她不像他生氣時(shí)那樣把雜志翻得嘩嘩響。她慢慢地翻動(dòng)書(shū)頁(yè)，好像在研讀里面的每一個(gè)字。她在表示對(duì)他的冷漠。他知道這起到了她想要的效果。這傷害了他。
