我们总会遇到这样一类人——他们像恼人的虫子一样,不时蛰你一下,给你原本波澜不惊的生活增添烦恼。但在那一刹那阵痛过后,你有否静下心来想过,那刺痛留给你的真的仅仅只是遇人不淑的痛苦回忆?到肉铺买肉、到药房买药、去食品杂货店买食品,这都很平常。可那年夏天我呆在纽约州沃里克镇奶奶家时,情况则不一样。她写了一张购物清单叫我到一家乡村杂货店买东西。杂货店里的货架横七竖八地塞满各式商品,想找到要买的商品可让我伤脑筋。 We always meet people who, like annoying bugs, sting you from time to time, adding trouble to your otherwise placid life. But after that moment of pain, have you ever stopped to think about that tingling left for you is really just the painful memories of encountering people? Purchase meat in a butcher’s shop, buy medicine in a pharmacy, go to a grocery store It’s not uncommon to buy food. But that summer when I was in Grand Warren, Warwickshire, New York, the situation was different. She wrote a shopping list asking me to go shopping at a village grocery store. Grocery store shelves filled with all sorts of goods, want to find the goods you want to buy can make me headache.