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He simply drives the girl out to the Point or the drive-in or a parking lot somewhere and spreads a blanket across the backseat of his car.[qh]
他只是简单地把那个女孩开车送到指定的地方，或者汽车餐厅，或者某个地方的停车场，然后在他的汽车后座上铺上一条毯子。[qh]
A week or two later, he stops calling and moves on.[qh]
一两个星期后，他就不再打电话，开始新的生活。[qh]
He’s known to make a specialty of deflowering virgins.[qh]
他因擅长使处女脱去童贞而闻名。[qh]
At school, the girls are proud of it, like they’ve joined an exclusive club;[qh]
在学校，女孩们为此感到自豪，就像她们加入了一个排外的俱乐部;[qh]
clustered at their lockers, they whisper a giggling, salacious play-by-play.[qh]
他们聚集在储物柜前，窃窃私语，咯咯地笑着，玩着情色游戏。[qh]
Jack himself talks to no one.[qh]
杰克自己不跟任何人说话。[qh]
It’s common knowledge that he’s alone most of the time:[qh]
大家都知道他大部分时间都是一个人:[qh]
his mother works night shifts at the hospital, six nights a week.[qh]
他母亲在医院上夜班，一周六天。[qh]
He does not eat in the school cafeteria; he does not go to the dances.[qh]
他不在学校食堂吃东西;他不去参加舞会。[qh]
In class, he sits in the back row, picking the next girl he’ll ask for a ride.[qh]
在课堂上，他坐在后排，挑选下一个要搭车的女孩。[qh]
This spring he had picked Lydia.[qh]
今年春天他选中了莉迪亚。[qh]
Nath huddles in the cemetery an hour, two hours, three, watching the cemetery workers stack the folding chairs,[qh]
纳在墓地里蜷缩了一个小时，两个小时，三个小时，看着墓地的工作人员叠放折叠椅，[qh]
gather the flowers, pluck balled-up papers and tissues from the grass.[qh]
收集花朵，从草地上摘下打结的纸和纸巾。[qh]
In his mind, he dredges up every single thing he’s ever heard about Jack, every fact, every rumor.[qh]
在他的脑海里，他回忆起他听到的关于杰克的每一件事，每一个事实，每一个谣言。[qh]
The two begin to blur, and by the time he is ready to head home, he is bubbling with a terrible fury.[qh]
这两者开始变得模糊起来，当他准备回家的时候，他气得浑身冒烟。[qh]
He tries to imagine Lydia with Jack, tries desperately not to picture them together.[qh]
他试着想象莉迪亚和杰克在一起的情景，拼命不去想象他们在一起的情景。[qh]
Had Jack hurt her somehow? He doesn’t know.[qh]
杰克伤着她了吗?他不知道。[qh]
He knows only that Jack is at the heart of everything, and he promises himself he will find out how.[qh]
他只知道杰克是一切的中心，他向自己保证一定会找到答案。[qh]
Only when the gravediggers lift their shovels and approach the open grave does Nath clamber to his feet and turn away.[qh]
只有当掘墓人抬起铁锹，靠近那座敞开的坟墓时，纳才会爬起来，转身离开。[qh]
As he skirts the edge of the lake and turns onto their street, he spots a police car parked outside Jack’s house.[qh]
当他沿着湖边转到他们那条街上时，他发现一辆警车停在杰克的房子外面。[qh]
