2015-11-26

【Aiden in English】

        I walked to his seat silently, noticing people around him just beginning to trickle out. Quietly taking out his lunch, my nose quickly wrinkled to the scent of the dumplings his grandma made that morning. I, who had been dealing with unusually smell all my life, seemed unfazed, but my friends around me appeared to have other opinions. “Hey Aiden,” said Bob, a good friend of mine, stopping by as he was throwing out his trash. “I was apparently told that my mom would be picking me up after lunch for some reason.” Taking a breath through his nose as he sat down, Bob suddenly wheezed and gagged a bit, his body doubled over. After a moment, he raised his head towards me, as if he had something to say. When he opened his mouth, instead of regular words, a flood of half-digested rations hit my dead center in the chest, and ricocheting slop landed on nearby innocent children, filling the cafeteria with shrill screams of terror and chaos erupted around them. This day was not going well for me. Bob, too, didn’t exactly look so good either. His face was pale and green goo dripping down his chin and down the sides of his cheeks. He had collapsed in a sour puddle he regurgitated just seconds before, and through the mess around the table, I barely made out a groan escape the lips of his friend.

        Bob continued to spew vomit every now and then as I walked him to the nurse’s office, and the flow of food continued out of his mouth. It came to a point where I had to duct tape his lips together, although it may have caused a lot more pain to Bob who had to swallow his own throw-up. Reaching the nurse’s office, the duct tape was starting to loosen as the vomit forced it to strain. A vile smell enveloped the two friends, and when the nurse took a whiff, she wrinkled her nose in disgust. Seeing the duct tape, and without hearing my loud warnings about being blasted with vomit, she lifted the edges of the tape. Then, as if in slow motion, the duct tape came off with a sickening RIPPPP, and a torrent of colors blasted a very un-expectant nurse straight in the face. When she opened her mouth to scream, bits of the bile flew into her mouth, gagging her. In the end, I remained standing, but neither Bob nor the nurse seemed to be conscious.

【红霞译文】

        我悄悄走到午餐座位前，只见身边朋友纷纷起身离去。这时，我若无其事地打开饭盒，鼻子下意识蠕动了一下，很快便嗅出今个早起外婆现煮的饺子香味，跟这种气味打了一辈子交道的我似乎早已习以为常，但其他朋友却另有说辞。“嘿儿歌，”铁杆哥们鲍勃扔掉手中的垃圾上前打声招呼：“吃罢午饭，妈妈要接我回去办事。”他边说边坐了下来，用鼻子深吸一口气，突然呼吸变得急促起来，喉咙如同被卡住似的，身体不由得朝前倾斜。稍息片刻，他冲着我抬起头，仿佛有什么话要讲，可刚一张开口还没有发出声响，尚未来得及消化处理掉的胃中积食一股脑儿吐到我的胸脯上，粘浆稠液转而又溅到附近无辜的同伴身上，食堂立刻陷入混乱，惊恐万状的尖叫声响彻大厅内外，这天我可真够倒霉，当然鲍勃也不好受。他脸色煞白，青了吧唧的东西流经脸颊两侧并垂挂在下巴上面，有气无力地瘫坐在刚才因反胃呕吐而成的酸液积洼之中，餐桌周围一派狼藉，此时我身陷囹圄，呼天天不应叫地地不灵。

        在陪同鲍勃赶往护士站途中，我终于被吐得体无完肤。食流胃液从他口中喷发不止，无奈之余，我只好抄起胶带索性把他嘴巴彻底封死，这下真给鲍勃新添了不少痛苦，他必须把吐到嘴边的玩意咽回肚里。抵达医务室时，胶带开始变松，形状也被蹂躏地走了样，我们两位浑身上下臭味十足，护士没憋住倒吸了一口气，结果呛得她直抽鼻子。一见鲍勃脸上贴的绷带，她不顾我高声遏止动手去扌—曷—揭，说时迟那时快，食道残留物犹如决堤后的污泥浊水狂泻而出，迎面打中护士满副同情的脸庞，把她恶心得大呼小叫，空中飞舞的胆汁绿液正好落入她嗓子眼里。最后，鲍勃虚脱，护士抽风，只剩下我一人孤零零地站在原地动弹不得。