There's a bookstore downstairs the apartment I live in. A few plastic chairs lie spare outside the entrance. A few days ago someone installed an arcade game outside the shop. People can often be seen idling away outside the bookshop. Some people read, some people just unwind in the haze of cigarette smoke wafting lazily under a tattered roof.
「在我住宅樓下有個書店。外面留著有些空置椅子。有幾天之前外面安裝街機。常常會看到人在書店外面消磨。有些人看書，有些人只舒展，在廢舊的屋頂下濃厚的煙蓋著他們的迷離的臉。」
「在我住宅樓下有個書店。外面留著有些空置椅子。有幾天之前外面安裝街機。常常會看到人在書店外面消磨。有些人看書，有些人只舒展，在廢舊的屋頂下濃厚的煙蓋著他們的迷離的臉。」
The bookshop closes at 11:30 pm every night. During the closing hours, a guy is regularly seen playing on the arcade machine. He also has a smart tablet which he places beside the screen of the arcade machine and plays another game on it. He always wears a black tee which clings tightly to his body which is out of shape. His appearance and mannerisms hint at a lifestyle that lacks creature comforts. An old man sits in a chair behind him reading a book while smoking continuously. He exudes lonesomeness. These two people stay totally absorbed in their own life. They carry on with their own stuff, oblivious to the shop-owner inside the shop as she wraps up the interior.
「書店晚上11:30休息。關閉時間時常常看到一個人玩在街機。他也有個智能平板電腦在街機螢幕旁邊，他用它玩另外個遊戲。他總是穿緊身的黑體恤，那件體恤暴露他的不健康的身體。他的形容跟習氣暗示他的生活缺少物質享受。一個年紀大的人坐在他後面抽煙看著書。他滲出寂寞。這兩位人非常專心的做他們自己的事。他們繼續做自己的事，不察覺到裡面店員正在準備休息。」
「書店晚上11:30休息。關閉時間時常常看到一個人玩在街機。他也有個智能平板電腦在街機螢幕旁邊，他用它玩另外個遊戲。他總是穿緊身的黑體恤，那件體恤暴露他的不健康的身體。他的形容跟習氣暗示他的生活缺少物質享受。一個年紀大的人坐在他後面抽煙看著書。他滲出寂寞。這兩位人非常專心的做他們自己的事。他們繼續做自己的事，不察覺到裡面店員正在準備休息。」
The bookshop is surrounded by cheap food stalls from three sides. They seem to be run by old people who live in the apartments right behind those stalls. Their day ends around 11pm after which they begin washing huge pans, bowls and cutlery just by the road. Clinging sounds of metal fill the air as they wash and carry their kitchenware inside their homes.
「書店的三面有便宜的食物攤子。它看來們是被住在攤子後面的房子的老人擺的。他們晚上11點結束然後在路上開始洗盤子，碗和刀類。把洗好餐具帶進家去時響叮噹的聲音瀰漫四周。」
「書店的三面有便宜的食物攤子。它看來們是被住在攤子後面的房子的老人擺的。他們晚上11點結束然後在路上開始洗盤子，碗和刀類。把洗好餐具帶進家去時響叮噹的聲音瀰漫四周。」
Every night I watch as the soapy water sweeps the edges of the road. The bookshop shines under white light which illuminates a thick haze of smoke.
「每天晚上我看到肥皂水沿著路邊。亮的書店外面白光點亮飄著的濃煙。」
「每天晚上我看到肥皂水沿著路邊。亮的書店外面白光點亮飄著的濃煙。」
When you enter the bookshop, you can find shelves of books with a sign on top that says "18+". Nothing suggestive is apparent on or in any of the books here. A small fraction of the books are accessible to all. It seems a rather dull bookshop where the line between coziness and congestion diminishes.
「進入書店後你會看到書架有“18+”這個標誌。可是書上或書裡沒有提示情色的事。所有書的小部分是大家易取得。這家店好像個無聊的書店，這裡舒適感跟擁擠的差別幾乎不見了。」
「進入書店後你會看到書架有“18+”這個標誌。可是書上或書裡沒有提示情色的事。所有書的小部分是大家易取得。這家店好像個無聊的書店，這裡舒適感跟擁擠的差別幾乎不見了。」
The bookshop sticks out like a sore thumb in this neighborhood. It just feels like it shouldn't have been here. The people sitting outside the shop appear to be misfits. They shouldn't have been this way.
「這家書店在這個鄰里看起來有點奇怪。我覺得它不應該這樣。外面坐的人好像跟社會不能結合的人。他們不應該這樣。」
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