当年的绰号

类别：成长

偶遇老同学被喊出年少绰号，瞬间唤醒了早已被成人世界磨灭的青葱记忆。

时长 55 秒 · 语速 143 wpm

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At work, people call me by my full name. 在单位，大家都是连名带姓地叫我。

My kids call me Dad. 孩子们管我叫爸爸。

For most of the world, 对大多数人来说，

I'm a serious person with a serious title. 我是一个有着正经头衔、不苟言笑的人。

Last month, I met an old classmate 上个月，我遇到了一个老同学，

for the first time in ten years. 这是我们十年来的头一次见面。

I saw him across the restaurant. 隔着整个餐厅，我一眼就看到了他。

He saw me too. 他也看到了我。

And he shouted, loud enough for every table to hear: "MONKEY!" 然后他扯着嗓子大喊了一声，全场都能听见：“猴子！”

Nobody has called me that since I was fifteen. 十五岁之后，就再没人这么叫过我了。

I got the name for climbing the school wall to buy snacks. 当年得这个外号，是因为我翻学校院墙去买零食。

For a second I was embarrassed. 有那么一瞬间，我还挺尴尬的。

Then something in my chest opened up. 但紧接着，心里像是有什么东西一下子释怀了。

With that one word, he gave me back a whole person. 就凭这一声，他把当年的我完完整整地带了回来。

A skinny kid who climbed walls and wasn't afraid of anything. 那个翻墙、天不怕地不怕的瘦小子。

Only one man on earth still knows that kid. 这世上只有一个人还记得那个小孩。

"Hey, Professor," I said. “嘿，大教授，”我说。