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【文字翻译】Across the Wall – Preface (1) – Garth Nix（百日翻译DAY 051）

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Four years ago, after a Christmas Lunch, my younger brother passed around a very small ‘book’ of four stapled-together pages that he said he’d found while helping my mother clean out a storage area under the family home. The book contained four stories written in shaky capital letters, with a couple of half-hearted illustrations done with colored pencils. On the front, it had“Stories” and “Garth Nix” in the handwriting one would expect from someone aged around six. 

四年前，在一次圣诞聚餐后，我弟弟递给我一个由订书钉固定起来的四页“本子”。他说，这是在帮我妈妈一起清理大宅的地下贮藏室时找到的。这个本子里有四个小故事，全部是用抖抖索索的大写字母写成的，里面还有彩色铅笔画出的一对半个心形图案。在页首处，上面写着“故事集”和“加思·尼克斯”的字样，这字看来就像是一个大约六岁的小男孩写出来的。

The stories included such gems as “The Coin Shower,” which was very short and went something like:  

a boy went outside

it started raining coins

he picked them up

TBC

这些故事有着如“硬币雨”这样的标题，这是个很短的故事，大概是这样的：

一个小男孩走了出去

天上下起了硬币雨

他把硬币捡了起来

TBC

Reference:

Nix, Garth. (2005). Across the Wall: Tales of the Old Kingdom and elsewhere. Crows: Allen & Unwin