双语读剧：Call me by ...（一）38:奇亚拉是那块必须铲除的绊脚石

Then it hit me that I could have killed myself instead, or hurt myself badly enough and let him know why I’d done it. If I hurt my face, I’d want him to look at me and wonder why, why might anyone do this to himself, until, years and years later—yes, Later!—he’d finally piece the puzzle together and beat his head against the wall.
 
接着我意识到，我也能自杀，狠狠地伤害自己，让他知道我为什么这么做。如果我划伤我的脸，我希望他看着我，想不通为什么有人会这样伤害自己，直到多年多年以后回头（没错，回头再说），他终于拼凑出事情的全貌，懊恼地撞墙。
 
Sometimes it was Chiara who had to be eliminated. I knew what she was up to. At my age, her body was more than ready for him. More than mine? I wondered. She was after him, that much was clear, while all I really wanted was one night with him, just one night—one hour, even—if only to determine whether I wanted him for another night after that. What I didn’t realize was that wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it. I dreaded to think how experienced he himself was. If he could make friends so easily within weeks of arriving here, you had only to think of what life at home was like. Just imagine letting him loose on an urban campus like Columbia’s, where he taught.
 
有时候，奇亚拉是那块必须铲除的绊脚石。我知道她在盘算什么。对奥利弗来说，与我同龄的她的身体可不只是“准备好了”。比我准备得还充分吗？我怀疑。她在追奥利弗，这点很清楚，而我真正想要的只是与奥利弗共度一夜，一夜就好，甚至一个钟头也行——只想借此确认一下之后我还想不想再与他共度一夜。我没意识到的是，测试欲望的举动，只不过是在不承认自己欲求的状况下，取得那个欲求之物的诡计罢了。我不敢去想奥利弗有多么经验丰富。如果他来这儿才几个星期就如此轻易交上朋友，怎能不去猜想他在家乡过着什么样的生活？只要想一想他在执教的哥伦比亚大学城市校区有多么自由就够了。
 
The thing with Chiara happened so easily it was past reckoning. With Chiara he loved heading out into the deep on our twin-hulled rowboat for a gita, with him rowing while she lounged in the sun on one of the hulls, eventually removing her bra once they had stopped and were far from shore.
 
他和奇亚拉之间的事来得那么轻易，超乎我的预料。他和奇亚拉在一起时，喜欢驾着我们的双船体划艇到远处兜风；他划船，奇亚拉则悠闲地躺在一边晒太阳，等到远离岸边船停下时，她就脱下胸罩。