Lying in bed, by an open window, and listen....
窗邊靜躺，細(xì)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(diào)?能睡得著嗎?”聽說家人要為了節(jié)省電費(fèi)而把家里的空調(diào)關(guān)掉時，我的朋友一臉驚愕。
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[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(jié)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。
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"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?！盁崴牢依?”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(shí)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。
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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?；氐酵暄谉岬南奶欤氐搅送馄诺男∥?，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。
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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(fēng)會來的，這樣你就可以一身清涼地入夢鄉(xiāng)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(xì)語開始催我入眠······
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"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。”
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"Probably." I tell him, "Just keep listening!"
“很有可能!”我跟他說，“再仔細(xì)聽!”
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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(diào)機(jī)的嗡嗡聲，房間飄逸著一種奇異的祥和氣氛，還有未經(jīng)過濾的、親近的伸手就可觸及的夜聲。真的希望，當(dāng)?shù)谝豢|清風(fēng)悄然而至的時候，我依然能夠迎接她的到來。

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