从你垂垂欲落泪，呜咽如有声的表情来看，咱们的谈话该结束了。我会让你回去继续点点戳戳，继续东动西动，继续玩闹，继续撕机上杂志玩。我还会待在自己的座位上，幻想将自己这没有小孩的成年人的身体冲出飞机，畅游天空。提米，享受接下来的飞行吧。坐在你身边，我真的很喜欢。交新朋友真是有趣啊。
Hello, 6-year-old child.
Seeing as how fate has brought us together here, in the crowded coach section of this expensive airplane, I thought I should introduce myself.
My name is Amy, and I’m an adult. I suspect that you’re too young to understand what “adult” means, so let me explain. It means that I’m taller than you, and smarter, and that I get to do lots of awesome things, like smoke cigarettes and ovulate. It also means that I like to take naps on airplanes and read my newspaper in silence. These things seem to be very different from the things that you like to do.
I’ve gleaned from its near-constant utterance by the woman sitting next to you—your mother, I suppose, or perhaps a social worker or a federal prisoner who’s being paid to spend time with you—that your name is Timmy. It’s probably Timothy, actually, but people call you Timmy because it’s cuter. Which is appropriate, Timmy, because you’re very cute, you really are.
I’m going to drink this cup of coffee—would you like some? I didn’t think so. You’re more of a juice-box man, from what I gather. The way I gather this is by looking at the stain on my ninety-eight-dollar pants, the one you made when you put your juice box there. If I touched your pants, Timmy, I would probably be sent to jail. There are lots of differences between you and me, but that’s one of the big ones: the quality and the seriousness of what happens when we touch other people’s pants.
You’re not much of a sleeper, are you, Timmy? We’ve just met, but it seems to me like maybe you don’t really enjoy sleeping all that much. In fact, it seems to me that one of your greatest joys in life is wakefulness—and not simply passive wakefulness but the kind of vigorous wakefulness that makes a person like me start to question the very possibility of silence as a condition that can exist in the universe. I can see that I’ve confused you, Timmy, and I apologize; I was only trying to point out that you really seem to enjoy being awake. Let me make it up to you by giving you this modest dose of Ambien. It’s a kind of candy for your soul. Your soul is a kind of mouth that’s inside your brain.
Here comes the nice stewardess lady with a bag for collecting people’s garbage. Would you like me to give her some of the garbage that’s strewn all over your seat—and, if we’re being perfectly honest here, Timmy, all over my seat as well? And, while we’re at it, maybe I could give her this talking doll—the one that sings songs, very loud songs, songs of terrifying and ungodly volume, from that animated movie
Your whimpering and your dripping facial parts suggest that perhaps this conversation has run its course, so I’ll let you get back to your finger painting, your fidgeting, and your wanton, inexplicable shredding of the in-flight magazine. I’ll be here in my seat, fantasizing
相关单词：awesome
awesome解释：adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的
awesome例句：
The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.
相关单词：gleaned
gleaned解释：v.一点点地收集（资料、事实）( glean的过去式和过去分词 )；（收割后）拾穗
gleaned例句：
These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies. 这些数据是通过多次研究收集得来的。
A valuable lesson may be gleaned from it by those who have eyes to see. 明眼人可从中记取宝贵的教训。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
相关单词：utterance
utterance解释：n.用言语表达，话语，言语
utterance例句：
This utterance of his was greeted with bursts of uproarious laughter.他的讲话引起阵阵哄然大笑。
My voice cleaves to my throat,and sob chokes my utterance.我的噪子哽咽，泣不成声。
相关单词：sleeper
sleeper解释：n.睡眠者，卧车，卧铺
sleeper例句：
I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。
相关单词：stewardess
stewardess解释：n.空中小姐，女乘务员
stewardess例句：
Please show your ticket to the stewardess when you board the plane.登机时请向空中小姐出示机票。
The stewardess hurried the passengers onto the plane.空中小姐催乘客赶快登机。
相关单词：perfectly
perfectly解释：adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地
perfectly例句：
The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
相关单词：animated
animated解释：adj.生气勃勃的，活跃的，愉快的
animated例句：
His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言论引起了一场气氛热烈而活跃的讨论。
We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我们热烈地讨论时事。
相关单词：adventurous
adventurous解释：adj.爱冒险的；惊心动魄的，惊险的，刺激的
adventurous例句：
I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。
相关单词：inexplicable
inexplicable解释：adj.无法解释的，难理解的
inexplicable例句：
It is now inexplicable how that development was misinterpreted.当时对这一事态发展的错误理解究竟是怎么产生的，现在已经无法说清楚了。
There are many things which are inexplicable by science.有很多事科学还无法解释。
相关单词：shredding
shredding解释：v.撕碎，切碎( shred的现在分词 )；用撕毁机撕毁（文件）
shredding例句：
Like the Tehran experience, the shredding may be all for naught. 如同德黑兰事件中的情况一样，切碎文件可能是徒劳的。 来自时文部分
How shredding began is subject to some guesswork. 粉碎处理行业的起源是个有争议的问题。 来自时文部分
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