火星人的时光倒转

Mr. Yee had liked the idea of salvaging. He did not approve of waste, having been reared in the frugal, puritanical atmosphere of People’s China. And being an electrical engineer in Honan province, he possessed training.

Nice eyes, hair, and skin produced a pretty women; but a truly excellent nose created a beautiful woman.

Arnie said, 'Doc Glaub is going to scare up a schizophrenic for me; I need one, I need its professional services.'

火星上的孩子很孤独，部分是因为他们人数很少，部分是因为......阿尼不知道。这些孩子有一双大大的眼睛和一副困惑的神态，渴望某种东西，某种无形的东西。如果他们有半点机会在荒凉的沙漠中漫游闲逛，他们往往就会变得像隐士一样。他们带回的是对他们自己和开垦地都无用的东西：一些骨头，也许是古老的黑人文明的遗物。

Everything here in Lewistown is yours, even the bricks and straw.

He had sat, he realized, in Arnie Kott’s living room again and again, experiencing that evening before it arrived; and then, when at last it had taken place in actuality, he had bypassed it.

As the guy said, I’m not much but I’m all I have.

The desert lay ahead, for them and for him. But none of them had any regrets; it was impossible for them to turn back anyhow, because they could not live under the new conditions.

Arnie died thinking it was senseless, psychotic hate that was directed at him, but actually it was probably very rational hate with no psychotic elements in it at all.

Then it came to him who this was; this was the feeble little black-market operator who had been trying to horn in. The one we gave that lesson to, Arnie said to himself.

[...] and then the monument to Alger Hiss, the first UN martyr;

For example, the last ad in the Times worries me because —

It's like those babies with seal flippers back in the '60s, from them using that German drug.

It was a last gasp of hope springing eternal in the old man;

That was his real crime : he had tried to live the way of American life, instead of just talking about it.