the strangeness away.

不赶跑这种疏离感
She had never taught them to be kind to her.

她从没有教她们对她好
So, in that three-page passage, Ruth's voice inhabits her

所以在那三页文章里露丝的声音驻足在
grandmother's mind at widely varied moments in the grandmother's

她奶奶的心里在奶奶一生的
life: important, extremely intimate moments,

各种时刻: 重要的极其私人的时刻
even the strange moment of epiphany in the garden.

甚至在花园里那个奇怪的顿悟时刻
No one is anywhere near or around.

周围一个人都没有
It's a very mysterious kind of epiphany.

是一种很神秘的顿悟
Who knows, really, what it means?

谁知道呢到底是什么意思
And yet Ruth can tell us about it.

但是露丝可以告诉我们
Robinson has described her writerly project as giving us access to the

罗宾逊让我们机会看到人们不能说出来的事
kinds of things that people would say if they could,

以此很艺术地描写了她的内心想法