I surprised myself with my eagerness to please, felt myself

我讶异于我会如此想要取悦他
saying too much, explaining too much,

我感到自己说了太多解释了太多
over-involved and overexcited in the way you are

过多参与过于兴奋
when you're a kid and you think you've found

就像是一个小孩认为自己在街头
a soul mate in the new boy down the street and

新来的男孩身上找到了灵魂伴侣
you feel yourself drawn by the force of the courtship

你感到自己被追求他的力量所淹没
and so act as you don't normally do

于是做出了平常不会有的举动
and a lot more openly than you may even want to.

比你希望达到的程度还要狂放
But ever since he had banged on my door the day after Iris's death

但自从艾瑞斯死后那天他猛敲我的门
and proposed that I write Spooks for him,

请我为他写《Spooks》开始
I had, without figuring or planning on it,

我毫无准备地与科尔曼·斯尔克
fallen in to a serious friendship with Coleman Silk.

达成了严肃的友谊"