看完一本书

类别：生活方式

讲述作者远离手机诱惑、重拾沉浸式深度阅读体验的治愈过程。

时长 50 秒 · 语速 164 wpm

字幕原文

I used to read whole books in one day. 我以前一天就能读完一整本书。

As a kid, I'd disappear into one 小时候，我只要扎进一本书里，

after breakfast and come out at dinner, blinking. 吃完早饭就没了人影，直到晚饭才眨巴着眼睛回过神来。

Somewhere along the way, I lost that. 不知从什么时候起，我把这种状态弄丢了。

Now I read two pages, and my phone lights up. 现在我刚看两页，手机屏幕就亮了。

On Sunday, I tried something. 周日那天，我做了一个尝试。

I put the phone in the bedroom, closed the door, 我把手机放进卧室，关上门，

and sat down in the living room 然后坐到客厅里，

with a novel I'd been "reading" since June. 拿起一本从六月份就一直在“读”的小说。

The first twenty minutes were hard. 前二十分钟特别难熬。

My mind kept running to the other room. 我的心思总是不自觉地飘向另一个房间。

Then, around page forty, something let go. 后来，看到大概第四十页的时候，有什么东西忽然松动了。

The room went away. 身处的房间消失了。

I was in a small town in Italy, 我来到了意大利的一个小镇，

worried about people who don't exist. 为一些根本不存在的人揪心挂肚。

When I closed the book, the windows were dark. 等我合上书时，窗外天已经黑透了。

I'd forgotten to eat lunch. 我连午饭都忘了吃。

I hadn't lost the ability. 原来我没有失去这种能力。

I'd just stopped giving it a quiet room. 我只是很久没给它一个安静的空间了。