Choose, by Libby Belle
While at the busy grocery store, I wondered if anyone would help the elderly lady who dropped her bag full of groceries. A man hurried past her, a couple looked the other direction, a teenager skirted around broken eggs making a sour face. I saw a wife pull her husband away, "Don't bother, someone else will help her." A little boy picked up a can rolling by his foot. His mother made him drop it, yanking him to her side. As I gathered up her groceries, I was saddened by so many who choose to look but not to see.
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在繁忙的雜貨店里，我想知道是否會(huì)有人幫助那位摔倒的老太太，她的袋子里裝滿了雜貨。一個(gè)男人匆忙走過(guò)她身邊，一對(duì)夫婦朝另一個(gè)方向看去，一個(gè)十幾歲的少年繞過(guò)破碎的雞蛋，板著一張嫌棄的臉。我看到一位妻子拉著她的丈夫離開，“別管她，會(huì)有其他人幫她的。”一個(gè)小男孩撿起一個(gè)滾到他腳邊的罐頭。他的母親讓他放下罐頭，一把把他拽到她身邊。當(dāng)我收拾起她的雜貨時(shí)，我為那么多人選擇看而不是去看到感到悲傷。
- grocery /?ɡr??s?ri/
- a shop that sells food and other things used in the home. In American English ‘grocery store’ is often used to mean ‘supermarket’.食品雜貨店（在美式英語(yǔ)中 grocery store 常用以指 supermarket）
- skirt /sk??t/
- to be or go around the edge of something環(huán)繞…的四周；位于…的邊緣；沿…的邊緣走
- sour /?sa??r/
- (of people人) not cheerful; unfriendly and unpleasant陰郁的；悶悶不樂(lè)的；沒(méi)好氣的
- sadden /?s?dn/
- to make somebody sad使悲傷；使傷心；使難過(guò)
