Years ago, my parents decided to build a summerhouse in the garden and consulted a neighbour who had once been the property’s housekeeper. The octogenarian sucked her remaining teeth. “Mark my words: it will blow down. The last one did,” she said. “It stood for 50 years — but it blew down.”
多年前,我的父母決定在花園里建一座涼亭,他們咨詢了曾擔任該物業管家的鄰居。這位耄耋老人吸了吸所剩不多的牙齒說:“記住我的話:它會被風吹倒的。上一個涼亭就是被吹倒的。它在這里佇立了50年——但最后還是被吹倒了。”
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