美食、祈祷和恋爱评价 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 75 (168):赖爷的新任老婆

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 75 (168):赖爷的新任老婆  

Mario bursts into ecstatic applause and pronounces victoriously: "See? Painting working!"
I say
"Do you still want me to help you with your English
Ketut?"
He tells me I can start helping him right now and hops up nimbly
gnome-like. He bounds into his little house and es back with a pile of letters he's received from abroad over the last few years (so he does have an address!). He asks me to read the letters aloud to him; he can understand English well
but can't read much. I'm his secretary already. I'm a medicine man's secretary. This is fabulous. The letters are from art collectors overseas
from people who have somehow managed to acquire his famous magic drawings and magic paintings. One letter is from a collector in Australia
praising Ketut for his painting skills
saying
"How can you be so clever to paint with such detail?" Ketut answers to me
like giving dictation: "Because I practice many
many years."
他告诉我现在就开始，敏捷地跳了起来。他蹦蹦跳跳跑进小屋，拿来一叠过去几年从海外寄来的信（所以他有地址嘛！）。他请我给他大声读信；他通晓英语，却不太会读。我已成为他的祕书。我是药师的祕书。太妙了。这些海外艺术收藏家的来信都设法取得赖爷有名的魔法画作。一封澳洲收藏家的来信赞扬赖爷的技艺，说：“您怎能如此巧妙地使用这么细腻的笔法？”赖爷好似口述听写般回答我：“因为我已画了许多许多年。”
When the letters are finished
he updates me on his life over the last few years. Some changes have occurred. Now he has a wife
for instance. He points across the courtyard at a heavyset woman who's been standing in the shadow of her kitchen door
glaring at me like she's not sure if she should shoot me
or poison me first and then shoot me. Last time I was here
Ketut had sadly shown me photographs of his wife who had recently died—a beautiful old Balinese woman who seemed bright and childlike even at her advanced age. I wave across the courtyard to the new wife
who backs away into her kitchen.
"Good woman
" Ketut proclaims toward the kitchen shadows. "Very good woman."
He goes on to say that he's been very busy with his Balinese patients
always a lot to do
has to give much magic for new babies
ceremonies for dead people
healing for sick people
ceremonies for marriage. Next time he goes to Balinese wedding
he says
"We can go together! I take you!" The only thing is
he doesn't have very many Westerners visiting him anymore. Nobody es to visit Bali since the terrorist bombing. This makes him "feel very confusing in my head." This also makes him feel "very empty in my bank." He says
"You e to my house every day to practice English with me now?" I nod happily and he says
"I will teach you Balinese meditation
OK?"
"OK
" I say.