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In the morning, Marilyn burrowed beneath the covers, listening to James dress.[qh]
早晨，玛丽琳钻到被子里，听着詹姆斯穿衣服。[qh]
The zip as he fastened his trousers.[qh]
他系裤子时拉上了拉链。[qh]
The clink as he buckled his belt.[qh]
他扣上腰带时发出叮当声。[qh]
Even with her eyes closed, she could see him straightening his collar, smoothing the cowlick in his hair,[qh]
即使闭着眼睛，她也能看见他在整理衣领，梳理头发，[qh]
which still, after all these years, made him look a bit like a schoolboy.[qh]
这么多年过去了，他看起来还是有点像个小学生。[qh]
She kept them closed when he came to kiss her good-bye,[qh]
当他来和她吻别时，[qh]
because if she saw him, she knew the tears would come again.[qh]
因为如果她看到他，她知道眼泪还会再流。[qh]
At the bus stop, later that morning, she knelt on the sidewalk and kissed Nath and Lydia each on the cheek, not daring to look into their eyes.[qh]
那天上午晚些时候，在公共汽车站，她跪在人行道上，吻了纳和莉迪亚的脸颊，不敢看她们的眼睛。[qh]
“Be good,” she told them. “Behave. I love you.”[qh]
“乖一点，”她告诉他们。“举止要得体。我爱你们。”nn[qh]
After the bus had disappeared around the curve of the lake, she visited her daughter’s room, then her son’s.[qh]
公共汽车消失在湖的拐弯处后，她先去了女儿的房间，然后去了儿子的房间。[qh]
From Lydia’s dresser she took a single barrette, cherry-colored Bakelite with a white flower, one of a pair she seldom wore.[qh]
她从莉迪亚的梳妆台上拿了一个发夹，是樱桃色的胶木做的，上面有一朵白花，这是她很少戴的一对发夹之一。[qh]
From the cigar box beneath Nath’s bed she took a marble,[qh]
她从纳床下的雪茄盒里拿出一块大理石，[qh]
not his favorite—the cobalt with white specks like stars—but one of the little dark ones, the ones he called oilies.[qh]
不是他喜欢的那种钴蓝色，上面有星星一样的白色斑点，而是一种黑色的小斑点，他把这种小斑点叫做“石油”。[qh]
From the inside of James’s overcoat, the old one he’d worn in her college days,[qh]
从詹姆斯大学时代穿的那件旧大衣里，[qh]
she snipped the spare button from the underside of the lapel.[qh]
她把翻领下面的备用纽扣剪掉了。[qh]
A tiny token from each, tucked into the pocket of her dress—a gesture that would resurface in her youngest child years later,[qh]
每个人都给了她一个小礼物，塞在她的衣服口袋里——这个动作在她最小的孩子身上又重现了，[qh]
though Marilyn would never mention this small theft to Hannah, or to anyone.[qh]
尽管玛里琳从不向汉娜或任何人提起这件小事。[qh]
Not something treasured and loved; something they might miss but would not grieve.[qh]
不是什么值得珍惜和爱的东西;他们也许会怀念，但不会悲伤。[qh]
No need to tear another hole, even a pinprick, in their lives.[qh]
没有必要在他们的生活中再挖一个洞，哪怕是一个针孔。[qh]
