《美食祈禱和戀愛》Chapter 94 (224):思念亡妻
A sad smile. "It was her time to die. Now I tell you how I find my wife. When I am twentyseven years, I meet a girl and I love her."
他露出悲傷的微笑。"她大限已到。我跟你說我是如何認識我太太的。我二十七歲的時候遇上一位姑娘，愛上她。"
"What year was that?" I asked, desperate as always to figure out how old he is.
"那是哪一年的事？"我問，和往常一樣亟欲得知他的年紀。
"I don't know," he said. "Maybe 1920?"
"我不清楚，"他說，"大概是1920年吧？"
(Which would make him about a hundred and twelve by now. I think we're getting closer to solving this . . .)
（這讓他現在大約是一百一十二歲。我想我們就快找出解答了……）
"I love this girl, Liss. Very beautiful. But not good character, this girl. She only want money. She chase other boy. She never tell truth. I think she had a secret mind inside her other mind, nobody can see inside there. She stop to loving me, go away with other boy. I am very sad. Broken in my heart. I pray and pray to my four spirit brothers, ask why she not anymore love me? Then one of my spirit brothers, he tell me the truth. He say, 'This is not your true match. Be patient.' So I be patient and then I find my wife. Beautiful woman, good woman. Always sweet for me. Never once we argue, have always harmony in household, always she smiling. Even when no money at home, always she smiling and saying how happy she is to see me. When she die, I very sad in my mind."
"我愛這位姑娘，小莉。她很美，但人品不佳。她只想要錢。她追求另一位男孩。她老是說謊。我想她心機隱密，誰也看不見。她不再愛我，和另一位男孩跑了。我非常難過，心都碎了。我向我的四兄弟祈禱啊祈禱，問他們爲什麼她不再愛我？然後其中一個兄弟告訴我真相。他說："她不是你真正的女人。耐心點。"於是我耐心等候，然後找到我的太太，美麗的好女人，始終對我很好。我們沒吵過架，家庭始終平靜和諧，她總是掛着微笑。即使家裏缺錢，她也總是掛着微笑，說看見我讓她多麼快樂。她過世的時候，我心裏非常難過。"
"Did you cry?"
"你哭了嗎？"
"Only little bit, in my eyes. But I do meditation, to clean the body from pain. I meditate for her soul. Very sad, but happy, too. I visit her in meditation every day, even to kissing her. She the only woman I ever make sex with. So I do not know . . . what is new word, from today?"
"只流了點淚。但我禪坐，清除體內的痛苦。我爲她的靈魂禪坐。雖然傷心，卻又快樂。我每天禪坐時探訪她，甚至親吻她。她是和我有過性愛的唯一一個女人。因此我不曉得……今天那詞兒是什麼？"
"Romance?"
"談情說愛。"
"Yes, romance. I do not know romance, Liss."
"是的，談情說愛。我不清楚談情說愛，小莉！
"So it's not really your area of expertise, eh?"
"因此這不是你的專業領域囉？"
"What is this, expertise? What this word means?" Eat, Pray, Love
什麼意思，這詞兒？專業？
