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Except for the tears in his eyes, I believe I would have said, "Well, good luck, Ralph," but the tears made that impossible.
要不是因為他眼睛里的淚水，我想我會對他說：“好吧，祝你好運，拉爾夫”，但淚水使我沒能那么說。
He was as big as my father.
他已經和爸爸一樣高大了。
The suit he was wearing was my father's, which my mother had altered for him.
他穿的那件外套就是爸爸的，只是媽媽為他改了一下。
What were the tears for?
他為何流淚呢？
Would I have them in my own eyes in a moment, too, after all the years of imitating him to never have them,
這么多年，我學他，從不掉淚，而且我成功地做到了這一點，
and having succeeded except for the two or three times I had let them go when I had been alone, and nobody knew?
除了有那么兩三次我獨自一人時流過淚，但是沒有人知道。此時，我會馬上就讓自己掉眼淚嗎？
And if the tears came into my eyes, too, what would they be for?
如果我也哭，那么理由是什么呢？
Everything I knew I'd learned from my brother, not from school, and everything he knew he'd learned from my father.
我所知道的一切都是從哥哥那里而不是從學校學來的，而他所知道的一切都是從爸爸那里學來的。
So now what did we know? What did my father know? What did my brother? What did I?
那么現在我們知道了什么？爸爸知道了什么？哥哥知道了什么？我又知道了什么呢？
I got out of bed and jumped into my clothes and went outside to the backyard.
我下了床，匆匆穿好衣服走到后院。
Under the old sycamore tree was the almost completed raft my brother and I had been making in our spare time,
在老梧桐樹下放著即將做成的木筏，我和哥哥利用空閑時間一直在做。
to launch one day soon on Kings River.
我們原本準備不久后在金斯河劃著它試水。
"I'll finish it alone," I thought. "I'll float down Kings River alone."
“我會自己完成它的，”我想，“我要自己劃著木筏在金斯河上漂流而下。”
My brother came out of the house quietly, holding an old straw suitcase.
哥哥悄悄地走出家門，手里提著個舊的草編衣箱。
"I'll finish the raft," I said.
“我會把木筏做完的，”我說。
I believed my brother would say something in the same casual tone of voice, and then turn and walk away, and that would be that.
我相信哥哥也會以同樣輕松的口吻跟我說些什么，然后轉身而去，僅此而已。
