Breakfasting on the last day of stored Melba toast over the waste basket in my office , I find myself hearkening back to a time when I thought that wherever I was was where “it was at .”As an adult , I've come to see that where I am is where it is not , will never be ,and perhaps , never was .
今天是商店里免费供应梅尔巴吐司的最后一天了。当我在办公室的废纸篓边把它当早餐吃的时候,我的思绪回到以前。那时候我以为我身在何处,就真的是“身在彼处。”长大成人以后,我从才意识到,我身在何处,正是身不在彼处,以后也不会在,而且可能从来都没有在过。
(关键词:breakfast 名词当动词用)
The glasses make me look so good I consider taking up jai alai as an excuse to wear them .
我戴上这副眼镜这么好看,我都想学打回力球,以便有老戴它的借口了。
(关键词: jai alai 回力球)
They say that at forty , a man has earned his face .
他
人们说,男人四十,挣回颜值。
At my age now , being precocious would mean lying down in a coffin and awaiting interment .
按我现在的年龄算,早熟意味着盖棺待葬。
I've been feeling a little heart-attacky lately .
近来,我老觉得随时会心脏病爆发。
(关键词: heart-attacky 。 名词后面加了个y , 便带上几分戏谑的味道。)