欧美人文风情第218篇:永远陪着你!男孩的幽灵车手（打印版）

Well, when I was four, my dad bought a trusty Xbox. You know, the first ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. 嗯，四岁的时候，我爸买了台可靠的 Xbox。你知道，2001年推出，耐用结实的第一代那台。

We had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together, until he died when I was just six. 我们一起玩各种游戏玩得好开心、好开心，直到他在我才六岁时去世了。

I...couldn't touch that console for 10 years. But once I did, I noticed something. 我……有十年没办法碰那台游戏机。不过当我去玩时，我发现一件事。

We used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge—actually, pretty awesome for the time it came. 我们以前常玩一款赛车游戏，《越野挑战赛》——就它发行的年代来说，真的是款蛮不赖的游戏。

And once I started meddling around, I found a ghost...literally. 然后当我开始随便玩玩时，我发现一个幽灵……真的幽灵。

You know when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? 你知道计时赛开始时，目前最快的单圈成绩会被纪录成幽灵车手吗？

Yep, you guessed it. His ghost still rolls around that track today. 没错，你猜对了。他的鬼魂如今仍在那条赛道上游走。

And so I played and played and played until I was almost able to beat the ghost. 所以我一直玩、一直玩，玩到我差不多要能击败幽灵了。

Until one day I got ahead of it, I surpassed it, 直到有一天我领先它、我超过它了，

and...I stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure I wouldn't delete it. 然后……我停在终点线正前方，只是要确保自己不会删掉幽灵车手的纪录。

Bliss. 喜悦。