But it gets sadder than this. Some months ago, while thinking about but not anticipating the mail, I noticed the lateness of the hour and my still-empty mailbox. By 6 that evening there was still no sign of the carrier. The next morning I called the post office. “Oh,” the cheerful voice intoned . “It got dark, so the carrier went home.”
So much for the gloom of night.
“He’ll bring your mail this afternoon,” the voice concluded.
That wasn’t true. When the carrier finally did make his way down my street, I signaled to him, but he shrugged amiably and said, “Nothing for you today.”
I think that, at some level, I already knew that.
Vocabulary
1. cling to: 坚持,执著于。
2. 我还记得在电子邮件时代来临之前的那股强烈的期盼之情,在信件投递时刻一点点靠近时,总会好奇究竟会有怎样的薄薄的墨迹宝物在我的信箱中出现。prior to: 在……之前;heightened: 增强的,提高的;anticipation: 盼望,期待;slender: 微薄的。
3. swell with: 充满了(某种情感);run down: 找到(某人/某物);heroic: 英雄的,高尚的;missive: 信件,信函。
4. gloom: 黑暗,阴暗。
5. fast: 忠实的,感情牢固的。
6. conveyance: 表达,表示;import: 重要性,含义;Morse code: 摩斯密码,一种信号代码,通过不同的排列顺序来表达不同的英文字母、数字和标点符号;wrought: 〈过时〉work的过去式和过去分词。
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