戴维

• 作 者: Tom Crabtree 曹亚敏
• 出 处: 英语沙龙(时尚版)
• 发表日期: 2010年07期

许多年前我在英格兰一所儿童学校里当心理医生,有一天,一名少年出现在候诊室。我走了出去,他正在那儿焦躁地来回踱步。我将他引进了我的办公室,指向办公桌另一边的椅子。时值晚秋,窗外的丁香丛叶已落尽。“请坐,”我说。戴维穿着一件黑色的防雨外套,纽扣一直向上系到脖子处。他脸色苍白,一边盯着自己的脚一边紧张地扭动着双手。他还是婴儿时父亲就死了,然后他一直和母亲及爷爷一起生活。

Many years ago I was a psychiatrist at a children’s school in England. One day, a teenager appeared in the waiting room. I walked out and he was pacing back and forth. I introduced him to my office and pointed to the chair on the other side of the desk. In late autumn, the cloves and clumps are out of the window. “Please sit down,” I said. David wore a black rain jacket and the buttons buckled up to his neck. He was pale and stared at his feet as he twisted his hands nervously. When he was a baby, his father died. Then he always lived with his mother and grandfather.