Chapter 1/StarsShineForRAN

the five people you meet in heaven ​The END StarsShineForRAN ​20230608&20220122 about this story ​"here is only a guess,a wish,in some ways,that my uncle,and others like him-----people who felt unimportant here on earth-----------------------realize,finally,how much they mattered and how they were loved" “这只是一个猜测，一个愿望，在某些方面，我的叔叔，和其他像他一样——那些觉得自己在地球上不重要的人，最终意识到他们有多重要，他们都被爱着” ​"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end.with Eddie dying in the sun.It might seem strange to start a story with an ending.But all endings are also beginnings.We just don't know it at the time.“ 这是一个关于埃迪的故事，故事从结尾开始，从埃迪在阳光下死去开始，以结局开始一个故事可能看起来很奇怪 但过往皆序章，也许只是当时我们并没有意识到 The last hour of Eddie's Iife At Ruby Pier,an amusement park by a great gray ocean,where Eddie would be killed in About Eddie​ With 50 minutes left on earth they saw him summer after summer.one of those faces you associate(在头脑中与……联系在一起） with a place 人们总是在一个又一个的夏天中见到他，总是会让你回想起你曾到往的地方 Once,he had been strong enough to lift a carousel（旋转）horse in each arm.That was a long time ago 曾经他也强壮的能一只手抬起旋转木马，只不过那是很久之前 Forty minutes until his death​ mumbled喃喃而语，咕哝cursed咒骂yelled叫喊groaned抱怨squawked厉声的叫着stutters哼哼唧唧said说squealed尖叫grunted哼screaming呼喊 --- they drew in like cold hands to a fire 他们如冰冷的手伸向火 thirty-four minutes to live thirty minutes left​​ maybe they won't catch the halibut（比目鱼），but they catch other things important twenty-six minutes to live​​ before he meet Marguerite sixteen minutes to live ​ every life have one-true love snapshot(快照，特写).For Eddie,it comes in a warm September night after thunderstorm(暴雨）.When the boardwalk was spongy（像海绵的）with water 每个人都会有一个关于真爱的特写瞬间，对于艾迪来说，这个瞬间出现在温暖的九月，在那个下过暴雨的晚上，海滨的木板上积满了绵绵的雨水 the same arterial(动脉的)burst（爆炸) of love心动 ​fourteen ​minutes until his death no story sits by itself.sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely,like stones beneath (在……下面）a river 没有一个故事是独立的，它们有时在拐角相遇，有时他们一个压着一个，重重叠叠，就像河底的卵石 out on the ocean,diamonds（钻石） of sunlight danced on the water,and Eddie stared at （凝视）their nimble（灵活的） movement ​海上，阳光如钻石般在水面舞蹈，爱迪凝视着它们轻灵的姿态 Eddie felt her hands on his shoulders.He squeezed （挤压）his eyes tightly（紧紧的）,to bring the memory close 爱迪感觉玛格丽特的手搭在了她的肩膀上，他紧闭双眼，想把记忆拢的更近 twelve minutes to live a young girl wants Eddie to made her an animal ​​how do people choose their final words?Do they realize their gravity(质量，分量)?Are they fated(命中注定的） to be wise 人们会怎样选择他们的临终遗言呢？他们会知道说这些话的分量吗？这些话注定会是智慧的吗？ as far as he tell,when your time came,it came,and that was that,you might say something smart on your way out,but you might just as easily say something stupid 就他的理解，你的大限该来的时候就来了，仅此而已，在行将上路之际，你同样可能说些愚蠢的话 ​ ​​​about this accident at a most precise（精确的） moment巧合 ----- in those final memonts,Eddie seemed to hear the whole world:distant screaming,waves,music,a rush of wind,a low,a loud,ugly voice blasting（迸发） through his chest(胸膛) 在生命的最后时刻里，艾迪好像听到了整个世界的声音：远处的尖叫声，海浪声，音乐声，以及一个难听的，忽高忽低的声音，他意识到，原来那是从他自己的胸腔里迸发出来的声音 A stunning impact Ablinding flash of light And then,nothing 一场震撼的撞击 一道炫目闪光然后 一片空寂 ​--- （Finish this chapter） 公众号：StarsShineForRAN