美食祈祷恋爱影评 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 81 (184):每周的生日

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 81 (184):每周的生日  

I don't know how old my medicine man is. I've asked him
but he's not certain. I seem to re-member
when I was here o years ago
the translator saying that he was eighty. But Mario asked him the other day how old he was and Ketut said
"Maybe sixty-five
not sure." When I asked him what year he was born
he said he didn't remember being born. I know he was an adult when the Japanese were occupying Bali during World War II
which could make him about eighty now. But when he told me the story about burning his arm as a young man
and I asked him what year that had happened
he said
"I don't know. Maybe 1920?" So if he was around enty years old in 1920
then that makes him what now? Maybe a hundred and five? So we can estimate that he's somewhere beeen sixty and a hundred and five years old.
I've also noticed that his estimation of his age changes by the day
based on how he feels. When he's really tired
he'll sigh and say
"Maybe eighty-five today
" but when he's feeling more upbeat he'll say
"I think I'm sixty today." Perhaps this is as good a way of estimating age as any—how old do you feel? What else matters
really? Still
I'm always trying to figure it out.
One afternoon I got really simple
and just said
"Ketut—when is your birthday?"
某天下午，我简单地问他："赖爷，你生日在什么时候？"
"Thursday
" he said.
"This Thursday?"
"No. Not this Thursday. A Thursday."