57 Back in the old country

I stopped to let the car cool off and to study the map.

我停下车,让汽车发动机冷却一下,同时查看一下地图。

I had expected to be near my objective by now, but everything still seemed alien to me.

我本想离目的地已经不远,但周围一切对我仍很陌生。

I was only five when my father had taken me abroad, and that was eighteen years ago.

我5岁那年,父亲就带我出了国,那是18年前的事了。

When my mother had died after a tragic accident, he did not quickly recover from the shock and loneliness.

当时我母亲在一次事故中惨死,父亲未能很快从悲痛与孤独中恢复过来。

Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound.

他身边的一切都有母亲的影子不断地勾起他的伤感。

So he decided to emigrate. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve.

于是他决定移居他国。在这个新的国家里,父亲专心致志地为我们俩开创一种新的生活,慢慢地不伤心了。