热气球升起来的时候

类别：生活方式

描绘了乘坐热气球静谧升空的瞬间，在平缓的漂浮中真正体会到置身天空的奇妙。

时长 56 秒 · 语速 147 wpm

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I expected noise. 我本来以为会很吵。

An engine, a countdown, something shaking. 会有发动机轰鸣、倒计时，或者剧烈的震动。

Instead, the pilot pulled a handle, 但驾驶员只是拉了一下拉手，

and a flame shot up into the balloon with a short roar. 伴着一声短暂的呼啸，一团火焰蹿进了气球里。

Then he let go, and it was quiet. 然后他松开了手，四周又安静了下来。

And I noticed that the grass was a little farther away. 接着我发现，地上的草坪离我稍微远了一点。

That's how you leave the ground in a balloon. 坐热气球升空就是这种感觉。

You don't take off. 你不是“起飞”了，

The earth simply lets go of you. 而是大地就这么放开了你。

We went up without a sound. 我们悄无声息地升了上去。

I could hear a dog barking in a yard below. 我能听见下面院子里传来的狗叫声。

The sounds of the morning, rising up to us, small and clear. 清晨的各种声响传到我们耳边，细小却很清晰。

The fields turned into squares. 田野变成了一个个方块。

Our own shadow, round and dark, slid across a farm. 我们自己的影子又圆又黑，在一片农场上滑过。

I've flown in planes a hundred times, and felt nothing. 我坐过上百次飞机，却毫无感觉。

In a basket, in the open air, at walking speed, 而在这个篮子里，露着天，以步行的速度飘着，

I finally understood that I was in the sky. 我才终于意识到，自己真的在天上。