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I'll phone you back, I said and hung up, and when I did phone back she was all right, although she wasn't all right, of course, and we all knew she wasn't.
“我會(huì)再打給您的。”說(shuō)完我便掛斷了電話(huà)。而等我打回去的時(shí)候，她已經(jīng)“正常”了。盡管她實(shí)際上并不正常，當(dāng)然，我們都知道她一直不正常。
She had always been a small woman—short, light-boned, delicately structured—but now, under the white hospital sheet, she was becoming tiny. I thought of a doll with huge, fierce eyes. There had always been a fierceness in her. It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issued an opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.
她一直是個(gè)體態(tài)嬌小的女人——矮個(gè)子、小骨架、體格小巧——但是現(xiàn)在，在醫(yī)院白色罩單下的她愈發(fā)顯得瘦小，讓我覺(jué)得她像一個(gè)大眼睛、目光犀利的玩偶。她身上總有那么一股倔勁兒。她發(fā)表見(jiàn)解時(shí)，總是氣鼓鼓地、挑釁地?fù)P起下巴。這種表情充分顯現(xiàn)出她的性格，她總是那么勇于發(fā)表自己的看法。
I tell people exactly what's on my mind, she had been fond of boasting, "whether they like it or not."
“我想什么都會(huì)直接告訴別人，”她總喜歡炫耀，“不管他們喜不喜歡。”
It's not always good policy to tell people exactly what's on your mind, I used to caution her.
“想什么就說(shuō)什么不一定總是上策。”我曾經(jīng)提醒過(guò)她。
If they don't like it, that's too bad, was her customary reply, "because that's the way I am."
“如果他們不喜歡，那就太糟糕了，”這是她慣有的回答，“因?yàn)槲揖褪沁@樣的人。”
And so she was, a formidable woman, determined to speak her mind, determined to have her way, determined to bend those who opposed her. She had hurled herself at life with an energy that made her seem always on the run.
她就是這樣一個(gè)令人敬畏的女人，想說(shuō)什么就說(shuō)什么，想做什么就做什么，執(zhí)意要使對(duì)手甘拜下風(fēng)。她以極大的熱情全身心地投入到生活中’這股熱情使她看上去總是風(fēng)風(fēng)火火。
She ran after chickens, an axe in her hand, determined on a beheading that would put dinner in the pot. She ran when she made the beds, ran when she set the table. One Thanksgiving she burned herself badly when, running up from the cellar even with the ceremonial turkey, she tripped on the stairs and tumbled down, ending at the bottom in the debris of giblets, hot gravy, and battered turkey.
她曾手持斧子追趕雞群，決意要?dú)⒌粢恢蛔龀赏聿停凰还苁卿伌矔r(shí)還是擺飯桌時(shí)，都顯得很麻利。有一年的感恩節(jié)，她燙傷得很?chē)?yán)重。當(dāng)時(shí)，她從地窖里上來(lái)，手里端著過(guò)節(jié)要吃的火雞，上樓梯時(shí)絆了一跤，滾下了樓梯，結(jié)果火雞裂開(kāi)了，她跌坐在一堆雞內(nèi)臟和滾燙的肉汁中。
