街上的一句乡音

类别：情绪

异国街头偶遇讲家乡方言的陌生人，一段日常通话带来久违的温暖与慰藉。

时长 54 秒 · 语速 151 wpm

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I'd been abroad for three years when it happened. 那事发生的时候，我已经在国外呆了三年了。

I was walking to the subway 当时我正走去地铁站，

on a gray Thursday, thinking about nothing. 那是个阴沉沉的周四，我脑子里一片空白。

Behind me, a woman was talking on her phone. 身后有个女人在打电话，

And she wasn't speaking English. 说的不是英语，

She was speaking the dialect of my hometown. 而是我家乡的方言。

My city, my streets. 是我那座城市、我老家街道的声音，

The way my aunts talk in the kitchen. 就像我那些阿姨在厨房里聊天一样。

I hadn't heard it out loud in years. 我已经好多年没当面听人这么说过了。

"I told him already," she was saying. “我早就跟他说过了，”她正说着，

"He never listens. “他从来就不听。

Did you buy the fish?" 鱼买了吗？”

It wasn't an interesting conversation. 对话内容其实挺无聊的，

It was the most beautiful thing I'd heard all month. 但这却是我整整一个月听过最动听的声音。

I slowed down. 我放慢了脚步，

I pretended to check my phone, so she'd pass me slowly. 假装看手机，好让她慢慢从我身边走过去。

I followed that phone call for half a block. 我就顺着那通电话跟了半条街，

Then she turned the corner. 然后她拐过了街角。

I didn't say hello. 我没有上前搭话，

I just stood there, a little warmer than before. 只是站在那儿，心里比刚才暖和了一点。