中英雙語美文欣賞：祈盼清風

　　Lying in bed, by an open window, and listen....窗邊靜躺，細心聆聽······

　　"No air-conditioning, how can you sleep?" my fiend asks, horrified. I've just revealed that my family had decided to shut the air-conditioner off and trim our electric bill.[/en“不開空調?能睡得著嗎?”聽說家人要為了節省電費而把家里的空調關掉時，我的朋友一臉驚愕。[en]On its first night of our cost-cutting adventure, it's only eighty-five degrees. We're not going to suffer, but the three kids grumble anyway.在大膽嘗試節電的第一天晚上，氣溫不過華氏85°而已，我們并不覺得難受，但三個孩子卻怨聲連天。"It's too hot to sleep." my thirteen-year-old daught moans. "I'm about to die from this heat!" her brother hollers down the hall. "Just try it tonight." I tell them. In truth, I'm too tired to argue for long. My face is sweaty, but I lie quietly, listening to the criket choirs outside. That remind me of childhood.“太熱了!怎么睡啊!”我十三歲的女兒不停嘀咕著。“熱死我啦!”他弟弟的牢騷聲也從客廳的.另一頭傳來。我只好說：“今晚就試著忍一忍，好嗎?”其實我根本沒有余力多做解釋。臉上也出汗了。我靜靜地躺著，聆聽著窗外蟋蟀的合奏曲，思緒被牽回到了童年時光。I think about my grandma, who lived to ninety-two and still supervised my mom's garden until just few weeks before she died. And then I'm back there in her house in the summer heat of my child hood. I moved my pillow to the foot of grandma's bed and angled my face toward the open window. I flipped the pillow, hunting for the cooller side.這是我禁不住想起了外婆，她活到了92歲，直到去世前的幾個禮拜，她一直都幫助媽媽照料著花園。回到童年炎熱的夏天，回到了外婆的小屋，我把枕頭移到外婆的床位，臉朝著窗。之后我又把枕頭翻了過來，讓比較涼爽的一頭朝上。Grandma sees me thrashing, "if you just watch for the breeze," she says, "you'll cool off and fall asleep." She cranks up the Vanetian Blinds. I stare at the filmy white curtain, willing it to flutter. Lying still and waiting, I suddenly notice that life outside the window, the bug chorus. Neighbours, porch-sitting late, speaking in hazy words with sanded edges that soothe me.看到我翻來翻去地睡不著，外婆說：“只要用心去感受和祈盼，風會來的，這樣你就可以一身清涼地入夢鄉了。”她把百葉窗拉了起來，于是我就一直注視著朦朧的白窗簾，等待它的飄動。靜靜地躺著，祈盼著，這是我忽然找到，窗外世界的生命。小蟲的清唱;門廊外閑聊著的鄰居，他們模糊不清的喋喋細語開始催我入眠······"Mom, did you heat that?" my seven-year-old blurts, "I think it was an owl family."“媽媽，您聽到了嗎?”我7歲的孩子囔道，“我覺得那是一頭貓頭鷹一家子在叫。”"Probably." I tell him, "Just keep listening!"“很有可能!”我跟他說，“再仔細聽!”Without the droning air-conditioner, the house is oddly peaceful, and the unfiltered noise seems close enough to touch. I hope I'm awake tonight that the first breeze sneaks in.沒有了空調機的嗡嗡聲，房間飄逸著一種奇異的祥和氣氛，還有未經過濾的、親近的伸手就可觸及的夜聲。真的希望，當第一縷清風悄然而至的時候，我依然能夠迎接她的到來。

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