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Still, he could never have imagined such a capacity in himself. Only minutes before his character was tested, he was sitting in the ordinary plane among the ordinary passengers, listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking" sign. So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning.
然而，他可能從來沒想到自己會有能力做出如此舉動。就在品質被考驗的幾分鐘之前，他還坐在普通的飛機中，周圍是普通的乘客。他聽著空姐叫他系好安全帶并勸告乘客不要吸煙。于是我們的英雄和其他人一起放松下來，他們中有些人后來之所以能夠存活還要歸功于他。也許他開始了讀報，或是打盹，或是為那天早晨在辦公室說了嚴厲的話而感到后悔。然后，他突然意識到這次旅途將不同尋常。和航班上的其他人一樣，他也渴望生還，這更使得他最后的舉動如此令人震驚。
For at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. He had to know it, no matter how slow the effect of the cold. He felt he had no choice. When the helicopter took off with what was to be the last survivor, he watched everything in the world move away from him, and he let it happen.
在水中的某一刻，他肯定想到了如果他繼續把救生索和救生圈讓給別人的話，自己就無法生還。不管刺骨的河水對他身體的影響有多緩慢，他也一定認識到了這一點。他感到自己別無選擇。當直升機帶走最后一個生還者時，他看見世間的一切離他遠去，而他只能任由這一切發生。
