Dubliners

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis.

每个夜晚，我抬头望着窗户，轻轻对自己说出

He had often said to me: “I am not long for this world,” and I had thought his words idle.

他常对我说：我在这世上待不长了，而我曾以为那不过是空话。