英语翻译
We may look at the world around us,but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we've become used to suddenly disappear.Take for example,the neatly-dressed woman I used to see or look at on my way to work each morning.
For three years,no matter what the weather was like,she was always waiting at die bus stop around 8:00 am.On snowy days,she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves.Summertime brought out neat,belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses.Clearly,she was an ordinary working woman.Of course,I remembered all this only after she was seen no more.It was then that I realized how much I expected to see her each morning.You might say I missed her.
“Did she have an accident?Something worse?” I thought to myself about her disappearance.Now that she was gone,I felt I had known her.I began to realize that part of our daily life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar strangers:the milkman you see at dawn,the woman who regularly walks her dog along the street every morning,the twin brothers you see at the library.Such people are important markers in our byes.They add weight to our sense of place and belonging.
Think about it.If,while walking to work,we mark where we are by passing a certain building,why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar,though unnamed,person?
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