(24/07/2012) The Start of Something New 一个新的开始

I like the night.

Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

--Stephenie Meyer

我喜欢夜晚。

没有黑夜，我们永远开不见星星。

--斯蒂芬妮梅耶

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It's raining.

The kind of rain that comes down

so heavy it sounds like the shower's running,

even when you've turned it off.

是雨天。

那一种倾盆而下的大雨就如浴室里开着的淋浴，

即使关上了也是如此。

The kind of rain that makes you think of dams and flash floods.

The kind of rain that tells you to crawl back to bed,

where the sheets haven't lost your body heat,

to pretend that the clock is 5 minutes earlier than it really is.

那一种让你想起水坝和山洪的大雨。

那一种告诉你回到床里，被子还没失去你体温，

假装时间其实还早了5分钟的雨。

Ask any kid who's made it past standard 4

and they can tell you:

water never stops moving.

Rain falls, and runs down a mountain into a river.

The river find its way to the ocean.

It evaporates, like a soul, into the clouds.

And then like eveythin else, it starts all over again.

问一个完成小学4年级的小孩，

而他们会告诉你：

水从来没有停止移动。

下雨，水从山上运行入河流。

河流又寻找出路到大海。

它又蒸发了，像个灵魂一样，到云中。

然而像任何事物一样，它又从新开始了。

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Things end. People leave.

And you know what? Life goes on.

Besides, if bad things didn't happen,

how would you be able to feel the good ones?

--Elizabeth Scott

事情会结束。人会离开。

可你知道吗？生活还是会继续。

而且，如果不好的事情没有发生，

你又怎么会感受得到快乐呢？

--伊丽莎白。斯科特