Skid Row. The very phrase conjures images of drunks passed out in gutters, lowlifes lying in wait, addicts in darkened alleys. 贫民区。这个词语让人联想到醉汉昏倒在水沟里，卑微的人在等待，瘾君子躲在黑暗的小巷里，...
My husband and his sister are notorious yakkers. 我丈夫和他妹妹都是超有名的话痨， They can hold court on any subject. One day, he called her. 他们可以就任何问题大聊特聊。一天，他打电话给他的妹妹。 All he had...
When Tal Golesworthy was told he needed lifesaving heart surgery in 1993, he said no. 1993年，当塔尔高尔斯沃西被告知他需要接受拯救生命的心脏手术时，他说不。 Golesworthy has Marfan syndrome, a genetic condition affecti...
Less than five minutes later, he pulled off Highway 16 at the farm and ran directly for the hopper, 不到5分钟后，他在农场旁的16号公路旁停下车，直接朝着装料斗跑去， but his father wasn't there and the auger was silentthe...
When the muscles were cut through and the last tendon severed, 当肌肉被割断，切断最后一根肌腱时， Kurt swung his legwhat remained of itaway from the machine and dropped his knife to the dirt. 库尔特把剩下的一条腿从机器上甩...
When the corn quit running out of the truck, he says, 他说：玉米不再从卡车里出来时， my clothes were still grabbing on the auger and jerking my leg as I was trying to pull it out. 我的衣服仍然紧紧地缠住螺旋钻，并在我试...
The goal that Good Friday was simple enough: transfer the corn he'd just picked up from a soggy field ten miles south to the silo on his homestead, 耶稣受难节的目标很简单：把他刚从南部10英里处潮湿的田里捡来的玉米转移到...
I Didn't Know How Long I'd Survive 我不知道自己还能活多久 The morning of Good Friday started like any other for Kurt Kaser, a third-generation farmer in northeast Nebraska. 对内布拉斯加州东北部的第三代农民库尔特卡斯尔来...
But as we put the new bulkhead together piece by piece, my dad knowing exactly what went where, I looked at him. 但当我们把新的隔板一块一块地组装起来时，我爸爸知道什么装在了哪里，我看着他。 How do you know how to...
Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: He knew everything. 在成长过程中，我了解了父亲的一件事：他无所不知。 This was our relationship, in sum: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. 这就是我们的关系，...
And then I thought back to when I was real young and my mom had sent me to Catholic school. 然后我回想起在我很小的时候，我妈妈把我送到天主教学校。 It was the 70s, and there had been this hippie nun who would come out with a...
She was kind of elderly, so it felt like it took her a long time to reach the front. 她有点上了年纪，所以感觉她花了很长时间才走到前排。 When she did, she carefully folded her money, put it into the box, scanned the congregati...
When we got inside, he introduced us. 我们进去后，他给我们做了介绍。 I addressed her as Miss Myrtle to show extra respect. 我称呼她为桃金娘小姐，表示额外的尊重。 She was a strong- looking 75-year-old with roller-set...
Im from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, but Ive lived in Denver for quite a few years. 我来自俄克拉何马州东部的肖尼族，但我已经在丹佛住了好几年了。 I have a friend that also lives in Denver who is originally from...
A protein called vascular endothelial growth factor, or VEGF, was spiking at ten times its normal level. 一种叫做血管内皮生长因子的蛋白质的峰值是正常水平的10倍。 David had learned in medical school that VEGF controls blood...
