train that had slid to the lake floor long before we were born.

那趟火车在我们出生前滑进了湖床
Perhaps we all awaited a resurrection.

或许我们都在等待他复活
Perhaps we expected a train to leap out of the water, caboose foremost,

或许我们希望那趟火车的车位突然从水中跳出来
as if in a movie run backward and then to continue across the bridge.

就像电影里的回放镜头之后又重新行驶在大桥上
The passengers would arrive sounder than they departed,

乘客们没有死而是到达了目的地
accustomed to the depth, serene about their restoration to the light,

慢慢适应了阔别已久的宁静的日光
disembarking at the station in Fingerbone with a calm

沉着地踏上费戈博的站台
that quieted the astonishment of friends.

连亲友们的震惊都被抚平了
Say that this resurrection was general enough to

仿佛这复活的力量足以延伸到
include my grandmother and Helen, my mother.

我的祖母和我的母亲海伦身上
Say that Helen lifted our hair from our napes with her cold hands and

仿佛海伦用冰凉的手从后面挽起我们的头发
gave us strawberries from her purse.

又从包里取出草莓给我们吃