两个重症病人,同住一间病房。其中一个每天下午要在床上坐一个小时,以便排出肺部的积液。他的床紧挨着这个病房唯一的一扇窗户。另一个则必须整天平躺在床上。他们一聊就好几个小时。他们聊自己的妻子和家庭,聊工作,聊在军中的服役经历,聊他们度假的地方。每天下午,当靠窗的男人可以坐起时,他都会给室友描绘窗外的世界。另一张床上的男人则开始期待每天 Two critically ill patients live in a ward. One of them should sit in bed for an hour every afternoon to drain fluid from the lungs. His bed was next to the only window in the ward. The other one must lie flat on the bed all day. They talk for hours. They talk to their wives and families, talk to work, talk about service experience in the military, chatting about where they are on vacation. Every afternoon, when the man by the window can sit up, he will give the roommate a picture of the world outside the window. The other bed men began to look forward to everyday