I was talking on the phone with my son, who was stationed in Hawaii. He was explaining how the troops were learning to scuba-dive. They used the buddy system, he said, and occasionally dived into shark-infested waters. Listening on the extension, my daughter asked, “What do you do when you see a shark?” Said my son, “Swim faster than my buddy.”
我和駐軍在夏威夷的兒子通電話。他正在解釋他們部隊(duì)怎樣學(xué)習(xí)用自攜式呼吸器潛水。他說,他們采用互助系統(tǒng),偶爾也到有鯊魚出沒的海域去潛水。這時(shí)候,用分機(jī)聽著的女兒插話問:“那你要是看到鯊魚來怎么辦?”我兒子說:“比我的同伴游得快一點(diǎn)?!?