美食祈祷和恋爱经典台词截图 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 65 (144):我帮得上忙

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 65 (144):我帮得上忙  

As the retreats begin
it is so quickly evident how much I am made for this job. I'm sitting there at the Wele Table with my Hello
My Name Is badge
and these people are arriving from thirty different countries
and some of them are old-timers but many of them have never been to India. It's over 100 degrees already at 10:00 AM
and most of these people have been flying all night in coach. Some of them walk into this Ashram looking like they just woke up in the trunk of a car—like they have no idea at all what they're doing here. Whatever desire for transcendence drove them to apply for this spiritual retreat in the first place
they've long ago fotten it
probably somewhere around the time their luggage got lost in Kuala Lumpur. They're thirsty
but don't know yet if they can drink the water. They're hungry
but don't know what time lunch is
or where the cafeteria can be found. They're dressed all wrong
wearing synthetics and heavy boots in the tropical heat. They don't know if there's anyone here who speaks Russian.
I can speak a teensy bit of Russian . . .
I can help them. I am so equipped to help. All the antennas I've ever sprouted throughout my lifetime that have taught me how to read what people are feeling
all the intuition I developed growing up as the supersensitive younger child
all the listening skills I learned as a sympathetic bartender and an inquisitive journalist
all the proficiency of care I mastered after years of being somebody's wife or girlfriend—it was all accumulated so that I could help ease these good people into the difficult task they've taken on. I see them ing in from Mexico
from the Philippines
from Africa
from Denmark
from Detroit and it feels like that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where Richard Dreyfuss and all those other seekers have been pulled to the middle of Wyoming for reasons they don't understand at all
drawn by the arrival of the spaceship. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
我帮得上忙。我很有能力帮忙。我这一生中曾经伸出的触角，教我如何解读人们的感觉；加上身为一个超级敏感的小孩，在成长期间所培养出来的直觉；还有身为善解人意的酒保和追根究底的记者所学习而来的聆听技巧；以及多年来为人妻或女友所熟悉的照顾能力——这些经验的累积，使我得以协助这些人抒解他们所承担的艰钜任务。我看见他们从墨西哥、菲律宾、非洲、丹麦、底特律来到此地，感觉就像《第三类接触》（Close Encounters of the Third Kind）当中的一景，德莱弗斯（RichardDreyfuss）和追随者基于他们不清楚的原因，被太空船的抵达所吸引而去到怀俄明州的中部。他们的勇气令我惊讶。这些人放下家庭与生活，决定花几个星期和一大羣完全不相识的人在印度静修。并非每个人在有生之年都会这么做的。