我六岁时的一天早上,外公告诉我下午将会有一次日食。我问他:“什么叫日食?”他走到厨房的调料架前,取下盐罐和胡椒粉罐,把它们放在餐桌上。然后他把右手捏成拳头,用明亮的蓝色眼睛注视着我。“你瞧,乔伊,”他说,“咱们把盐罐比作月亮,把胡椒粉罐比作地球,我的拳头比作太阳。” One morning when I was six years old, my grandfather told me that there would be a solar eclipse in the afternoon. I asked him: “What is solar eclipse?” He walked to the kitchen before the spice rack, remove the salt shaker and pepper jars, put them on the table. Then he pinched his right hand into a fist and stared at me with bright blue eyes. “Look, Joey,” he said. “Let’s compare a salt can to the moon, a pepper can to the earth, my fist to the sun.”