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Christmas Eve, 1994. I was a sailor in the U.S. Navy, on a one-day leave in San Francisco. I had won ' 300 at poker that ordinarily would have burned a hole in my pocket, but I couldn't shake an overwhelming sadness.
1944年圣诞夜。当时我是美国海军士兵，到旧金山休假一天。在那以前，我玩扑克游戏，赢了300元。通常，钱烧口袋滑，一有就不留。可我当时极为忧愁烦闷，怎么也无法摆脱那种恶劣的心境。
Scuttlebutt had it we'd be pulling out before the New Year for the South Pacific. I'd just received word that another friend had been killed in Europe. And here I was, an 18-year-old alone in a strange city. Nothing seemed to make any kind of sense.What was I going to be fighting for, anyway
传闻部队在新年前要开赴南太平洋，而且刚刚听说又有一位朋友在欧洲阵亡。我年仅18，如今在一个陌生的城市里，单身无靠。干什么都没有意思。我究竟为什么打仗来着
I spent most of the day in a mental fog, wandering aimlessly through crowds of laughing, happy people. Then, late in the afternoon, my vision suddenly focused, and for the first time a scene registered.
我精神迷惘，在欢笑的人群中毫无目的地逛荡，消磨了差不多一整天。后来，在黄昏的时候，视线突然集中，第一次有一个情景引起了我的注意。
There in a department-store window were two electric trains chugging through a miniature, snow-covered town. In front of the window was a skinny boy around nine years old, his nose pressed against the glass. He just stood there, fixed on those trains.
在一家百货商店的橱窗里，有两列电动火车正在一座白雪覆盖的微型城市里嘎嚓嘎嚓地行驶。在橱窗前，一个约莫9岁光景的瘦小男孩，鼻子紧贴玻璃，一动不动地站在那里，目不转睛地注视着那两列火车。
Suddenly the boy was me nine short years before, and the store was Macy's in New York City, my home town. I could see, could feel the same longing, the same desperate hoping. I could hear the sigh of resignation -- the frail attempt to hide the disappointment that Dad could not afford those trains. And I saw the reluctant turning away and then the one last look.
那男孩忽地成了短短的9年前的我，那商店成了我的家乡纽约市的梅西商店。我看得见，也感觉得到那同样的渴望和急切的期待。我听得见那无可奈何的叹息——爸爸买不起那种火车只好这么强憋住失望的心情。那恋恋不舍地转身走开，最后又看上一眼，恍如就在眼前。
Not this time l I don't know what came over me, but I grabbed the boy by the arm, scaring him half to death.
不能再这样了!我至今弄不明白是中的什么邪，反正我一把抓住男孩的胳臂，把他吓得半死。
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