双语畅销书|《这不是告别》第二十八章

　　《这不是告别》作为全美媒体和读者的年度之选，一出版就迅速横扫《纽约时报》畅销书榜长达45周，席卷全球三十多国。故事讲述了一头红发、穿着肥大男款衬衫的Eleanor，与沉默寡言、沉迷于音乐和漫画世界的Park之间的故事。

"What pirate story?"

“什么海盗故事？”

"You know, there's that character who's always reading a comic book about pirates, the story within the story, the pirate story."

“你知道的啊，里面有一个角色总是看跟海盗有关的漫画书，故事里的故事，叫做海盗故事。”

Park tried to get her to talk about Watchmen; they'd just read the fourth chapter. "What do you think of the pirate story?" he asked.

帕克跟她谈《守望者》，他们刚读完第四章。他问：“你怎么看海盗故事？”

"I don't know," Park said. "Probably not."

帕克说：“我不知道，可能不会吧。”

He could tell Eleanor was nervous on the bus. She was quiet, and she kept running her bottom lip through her teeth, making it go white, so that you could see that her lips had freckles, too.

回家的校车上，他看得出埃莉诺很紧张。她很安静，不断咬着下嘴唇，搞得嘴唇发白，帕克因此看到她嘴唇也有雀斑。

# Park #

#帕克#

His mother sighed.

妈妈叹了口气。

He called his mom during lunch to tell her that Eleanor was coming over. His counselor let him use her phone. (Mrs Dunne loved the opportunity to be good in a crisis, so all Park had to do was imply that it was an emergency.)

午休时他打电话给妈妈，说埃莉诺要过来。辅导老师让他用她的电话。（唐恩太太特别喜欢在别人有难时做好人，所以帕克只要暗示她事出紧急即可。）

"I'm nice to everybody," his mom said. "You know that."

妈妈说：“我对任何人都客气，你知道的。”

"I just wanted to tell you that Eleanor is coming over after school," he told his mom. "Dad said it was all right."

他跟妈妈说：“我只是要跟你说埃莉诺下课后会过来。爸爸说可以的。”

"You have to be nice to her, you know."

“你知道，你得对她客气点。”

"Fine," his mother said, not even pretending that she was okay with it. "Is she staying for dinner?"

妈妈说：“好吧，”她根本懒得假装她接受此事，“她要留下来吃晚饭吗？”