折了角的那一章

类别：成长

讲述在低谷中坚持写作的作家故事，给正处在人生迷茫期的自己带来力量与希望。

时长 56 秒 · 语速 141 wpm

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I've been reading the life story of a writer I love. 我最近在读一位我很喜欢的作家的生平故事。

She's famous now. 她现在很有名了。

I expected to enjoy the success chapters. 我本以为自己会喜欢看她功成名就的那些篇章。

I didn't fold those pages. 但我没有折起那些页。

I folded chapter nine. 我折了第九章。

In chapter nine, she is forty years old. 在第九章里，她四十岁。

She has written three novels, and nobody wants them. 她写了三部小说，却无人问津。

She works in a hospital laundry. 她在一家医院的洗衣房打工。

Every night she comes home 每天晚上回到家，

and writes for one hour 她都会写上一个小时，

at a table next to the washing machine. 就在洗衣机旁的一张桌子前。

Her husband asks, gently, if it's time to stop. 她丈夫轻轻地问她，是不是该放弃了。

She says, "Not yet." 她说：“还没到时候。”

That's the whole chapter. 那一章就这么短。

She doesn't know there's a chapter ten. 她不知道人生还有第十章。

I'm thirty-eight. 我今年三十八岁。

I'm in the laundry years. 我也正熬在“洗衣房岁月”里。

I can't see my chapter ten either. 我也看不到自己的第十章在哪里。

But neither could she. 但当时的她也看不到。

And she kept the table. 可她留住了那张书桌。

I folded the corner so I could find it again, 我折起那一页的角，好在难熬的夜晚，

on the bad nights. 能随时翻回来看看。