118. 日本生病

我觉得是牛丼。

I think Gudon.

牛丼。

Gudon.

那里有一家叫吉野家的店，我很喜欢，因为特别便宜。

They have a shop there called Yoshinoya, which I was quite fond of because it was so cheap.

我的意思是，真的特别便宜。

I mean, really cheap.

你只需要花大约一两英镑，就能买到一碗米饭、牛肉和洋葱。

You can just get, like, a bowl of of rice, beef, and onions, for just well, the equivalent to just about one or two pounds.

而且味道也不错。

And it was tasty as well.

当然，刚开始的时候，我想，哇。

Certainly, at the beginning, I thought, wow.

这真不错。

This is nice.

但说实话，这有点像日本版的麦当劳。

But, really, know, to be honest, it was a bit like the Japanese version of McDonald's.

它有点像日本的快餐。

It's kind of like sort of Japanese fast food.

但我很喜欢，有一段时间我就靠吃这个生存，因为它又便宜又容易买到。

But I liked it, and I kinda survived on that stuff for a while just because it was so cheap and easy to to get.

你知道的。

You know?

说实话，我真不敢相信我有时每天都在吃这些东西。

To be honest, I can't really believe that I ate that stuff every day sometimes.

但说实话，这帮我省了不少钱。

But to be honest, you know, it helped me helped me to to save money.

事实上，我甚至算过数学账，看看我能不能靠吃牛丼撑过几周，好熬到发工资的那个月。

In fact, I even sort of worked out mathematically how I could afford to live on Gudon for for a few weeks just so I could get through each month before I got paid.

所以我确实省了钱，但每次去我附近的酒吧时，就没省下什么。

So I did manage to save money, but I didn't really save when I went to my local bar.

有一家酒吧离我的公寓很近，我经常在周末去那里。

There was a there was a bar that was near to my apartment, and I used to go there at the weekends.

那就是我认识的一些日本人的地方，我是在酒吧里刚认识他们的。

And that's where I I would hang out with, like, some Japanese people that I just met in the bar.

有一天我决定去这家酒吧，因为我太无聊了，进去后就遇到了这些本地日本人。

I decided one day that I would just go to this bar because I was bored, and I went in there and I met all these local Japanese people.

过了一段时间，你知道的，他们逐渐了解了我，这感觉很棒。

And they after a while, you know, they they got to know me, and I I it was great.

这些实际上是我在日本经历过的最美好的一些体验。

Those are some of the best experiences that I I ever had in Japan, actually.

我只是在这家本地酒吧里消磨时间，和我认识的一些日本当地人一起闲逛、玩飞镖，试着跟他们说日语。

It was just spending some time in this local bar, hanging out with some of the local Japanese people that I met, playing darts, and just trying to sort of speak Japanese to them.

那里有一些特别有趣的人。

There were some really funny people.

这家酒吧叫Stone Bar，位于东京附近的川崎地区，靠近辻堂站。

The bar was called Stone Bar near Tsujido Station in in the sort of Kanagawa area of of Japan.

我住在横滨附近，那里离东京不远，在日本。

So I lived I lived near Yokohama, which is not far from Tokyo in in Japan.

所以，是的，去那家酒吧是我经历过的最棒的体验之一，我非常喜欢在那里消磨时光。

So, yeah, going to that bar was was really one of the best experiences that I I ever had, and I used to love hanging out there.

但我想我喝得有点太多了。

But I probably drank a little bit too much.

说实话，很难察觉饮酒对健康造成的负面影响，也许这正是后来让我生病的原因之一。

To be honest, it's quite hard to notice the negative effect that drinking can have on your health, and perhaps that's one of the things that's contributed to me getting a little bit sick later on.

事实上，有几件事我认为导致我最终病重住院。

In fact, there were a few things which I think contributed to me ending up, really sick in a hospital.

其中之一可能是，我有时在周末会和这些朋友在酒吧里喝鸡尾酒到很晚。

One of them maybe was the fact that I would sometimes at the weekends stay up quite late, drinking cocktails with these friends of mine in this in this bar.

还有工作，我觉得也是原因之一。

Also, work, I think.

我在头六个月工作得非常非常努力。

I worked really, really hard in the first six months.

那段时间非常有压力，因为学习曲线太陡峭了。

It was and it it was very stressful because of a very steep learning curve.

要真正学会如何教好英语真的很困难，每天都不得不拼尽全力，因为实在太难了。

It was difficult for me to really learn how to teach English well without, you know, really breaking my back every day because it it was it was hard.

教英语本身就很难，尤其是每天八九个小时都在上课，却没有一点准备时间。

It's hard teaching English, especially when you're doing it for eight or nine hours a day without any preparation time.

这确实很有压力。

That's pretty stressful.

你站在学生面前，他们都期待着向你学习。

You end up in front of the students who are all there expecting to, like, learn from you.

他们都付了钱的。

They've all paid their money.

他们都希望从你这里学到东西。

They they they want to learn from you.

那压力很大，对我来说是一段相当有压力的经历。

There's a lot of pressure there, And so it was quite stressful experience for me.

每天八九个小时不停地奔波，连片刻休息的时间都没有，刚开始真的很难熬。

And eight or nine hours every day of kind of, like, rushing around without a moment to to relax, was was quite tough at the beginning.

所以，我认为这可能让我感到有点疲惫。

So that, I think, perhaps contributed to me feeling a bit exhausted.

还有天气问题。

Also, the weather.

在英国，冬天基本上又冷又湿，而且大部分时间都黑暗无光。

In England, the weather is basically cold and wet during this during the winter and dark most of the time in in winter.

对吧？

Right?

所以冬天是寒冷、潮湿且黑暗的。

So winter is cold, wet, and dark.

但在日本，冬天干燥而寒冷，夏天却闷热多雨，这与英国不同——英国冬天湿冷，夏天炎热干燥。

But in Japan, it's kind of dry and cold in the winter, and yet hot and wet in the summer, which is different to England, which is wet and cold in the winter and hot and dry in the summer.

好吧，我说的是炎热。

Well, I say hot.

没像大多数国家那么热，但比冬天要热。

It's not not as hot as most countries, but hotter than it is in the winter.

这没错。

That's for sure.

所以在英国，夏天太阳出来时，人们很自然地脱掉衣服，尽可能让皮肤多晒太阳。

So so in England, when the sun comes out in the summer, it's quite normal and natural to kind of, you know, throw off your clothes and just get as much sun onto your skin as possible.

但当日本的太阳出来时，我也做了同样的事。

But when the sun came out in Japan, I did exactly the same thing.

你知道的。

You know?

所以夏天太阳一出来，我就想：哇。

So in the summer, the sun would come out, and and I was like, wow.

太阳。

The sun.

终于来了。

Finally.

每到周末，我就会到外面去，尽量多晒太阳，但这其实是个错误，因为我没意识到那边的阳光有多强烈。

And I kind of I would go outside at the weekend, and I'd try and get as much sun as possible, which was kind of a mistake because I miss some you know, I underestimated exactly how powerful the sun is over there.

不知为什么，那里的阳光比英格兰强得多。

For some reason, it's just a lot more powerful than it is in England.

有一次，我被严重晒伤了。

So I got well, on one particular occasion, I got really badly sunburned.

我记得有一天，阳光出来了，又是周末，我想：哇。

I kind of I remember one day the sun was out, and it was the weekend, and I thought, wow.

太好了。

Great.

这下终于有机会到外面去晒晒太阳了。

This is my chance to go outside and get some sunshine finally.

我没涂任何防晒霜，只穿了一条短裤和一件背心就出去了。

And I went out without putting any suntan lotion on, and I just had a, like, a pair of shorts and a vest.

然后我骑着自行车出去了。

And I went out on my bicycle.

我在日本有一辆类似家庭主妇用的自行车。

I had this kind of like housewife's bicycle in Japan.

他们称之为‘妈妈车’，你可以想象成那种家庭主妇会骑的自行车。

They call it a mamachari, which is a sort of imagine like a the bicycle that a housewife would would would ride.

我买了一辆这种自行车，价格非常便宜，就在拐角处的一家小车店买的。

I had one of these bikes because I bought one really cheaply from a little bike shop around the corner.

我有一辆大蓝色的‘妈妈车’，车后有一个超大的篮子，能装下我所有的购物品，车前还有一个大篮子，我就骑着这辆车到处跑。

So I had a a big blue Mama Cherry, which had a huge basket on the back, like massive basket, which I could put all my shopping in, and a big basket on the front, and I would ride around on this bike.

我可能在当地的日本人眼里看起来完全可笑。

I probably looked completely ridiculous to the kind of Japanese locals who would see me.

这个又高又奇怪的外国男人骑着一辆家庭主妇的自行车到处转。

This this big, weird looking foreign guy riding around on a housewife's bicycle.

他们大概觉得我真是个怪人，但我根本不在乎，因为这车实在太棒了。

They probably thought I was a a real freak, but I didn't really care because it was a great bike.

我的意思是，这车真的很好骑，骑着它到处逛是一种享受。

I mean, it was it was really good, and it was a pleasure to ride around on it.

所以那天我骑着我的Mama Chari家庭主妇自行车出门，晒了很长时间的太阳。

So I went out on this particular day on my Mama Chari housewife's bicycle, getting loads of sun, and I spent loads of time in the sunshine.

那天晚上我回到家，才意识到天啊，今天可能晒得太厉害了，整个人热得发烫。

And then I came home that evening, and I realized that, oh my god, maybe I got a little bit too much sun today because I was boiling hot.

我记得照镜子时，发现自己的皮肤严重晒伤了。

And I I remember looking in the mirror, and I realized I was seriously sunburned.

我脱掉背心，发现被阳光晒到的皮肤已经红得像三文鱼一样。

And I took off my vest, and it was like my my skin, the skin which had been exposed to the sun, was so burnt it was like pink, like a salmon, you know?

事实上，当我脱下背心时，看起来就像穿着一件深粉色的T恤，外面罩着一件白色背心。

In fact, when I took the vest off, it looked like I was wearing a pink t shirt, like a dark pink t shirt with a white vest over the top.

因为那深粉色的部分，其实就是我被晒伤的皮肤。

Because the dark pink t shirt was well, that was where my skin was all sunburned.

看起来就是那样。

That's what it looked like.

而白色的部分，则是背心遮住、没被阳光晒到的区域。

And then the white vest was where the other vest that I'd been wearing was had actually blocked the sun.

所以看起来我像是穿着一件粉红色T恤，外面罩着一件白色背心，但实际上我什么都没穿。

So it looked like I was wearing a pink t shirt with a white vest over the top, but actually, I just wasn't wearing anything.

那些粉红色的部分，其实是我的肩膀和脖子被严重晒伤的地方。

It's just the pink bits were where my shoulders and my neck were were had been really, really badly sunburned.

它们，你知道的，被晒得实在太严重了。

And they, you know, they got so so badly burned.

我非常担心，因为就连我的肩膀上也开始起水泡了。

I was so worried because they even on my shoulders, they started to blister.

于是我的肩膀上开始出现水泡，后来水泡破了，疼得要命，真是糟糕的经历。

So I started to get these blisters on my shoulders, which would then burst, and they were really painful, Horrible experience.

所以我现在明白了，出门一定要涂防晒霜，尤其是在日本这样的国家，因为那里的阳光强烈得多。

So I've now learned that you must always wear suntan lotion when you go outside, but particularly in a country like Japan because the sunshine was so much, stronger.

不过，这次晒伤并没有直接导致我生病，但它只是说明了我当时对那里的气候差异毫无准备。

So anyway, this sunburn didn't directly cause me to get sick, but it's just an example of how I wasn't really prepared for the difference in climate there.

所以，这只是说明我当时根本没有好好照顾自己。

So, know, it's just an example of how I wasn't really looking after myself.

当我向你们讲述这些时，日本听众可能会感到有点不安，因为日本人通常对人类身体的敏感性有着极强的意识。

Japanese listeners might be feeling a little bit alarmed when I when I'm telling you all of this, because Japanese people tend to have a a a great sense of how sensitive the human body is.

例如，体温稍微升高一点，如果他们量体温发现只上升了一点点，就会立刻采取极端措施。

For example, a slight rise in temperature, you know, if they if they take their temperature and realise that it's rise just a little bit, then they really kind of go all out.

他们会裹上围巾，吃药，戴上这种类似忍者风格的面罩，以确保自己好好照顾身体。

They wrap themselves up in scarves, they take medicine, they wear these kind of ninja style face masks to make sure that they are looking after themselves.

因此，日本人通常很注重自我保健，也非常关注健康。

So Japanese people tend to look after themselves pretty well, and they can be very health conscious.

所以，我向你们讲述这些自己没有好好照顾自己的故事，可能会让你们感到有些震惊。

So me telling you these stories of how I didn't really look after myself might be a bit alarming for you.

但别担心，当然了。

But don't worry, obviously.

我没事。

I'm fine.

我很好。

I'm okay.

我还好好的站着呢。

I'm still standing.

总之，我是英国人。

Anyway, I'm English.

你懂的？

You know?

我天生就很强韧，即使有时候有点傻。

I'm I'm I'm naturally tough, even if I am a bit stupid sometimes.

那么，这让我说到日本的夏天。

So, okay, that this brings me to the Japanese summer.

正如我之前解释的，日本的夏天和英国的夏天不一样。

Now, the Japanese summer is different to to the summer in The UK, as I've explained.

一般来说，日本的五月非常美好。

Generally, in Japan, it's it's beautiful in May.

五月到来，阳光普照，美得不得了。

May comes along, and the sun comes out, and it's it's it's gorgeous.

你会感受到一阵清新的空气。

You get kind of fresh air.

不太热，但阳光明媚，很舒服。

It's not too hot, but it's nice and sunny.

太棒了。

It's fantastic.

有点像英国夏日最美好的日子。

It's a bit like the best days of English summertime.

然后，在六月的某个时候，天气又变得寒冷多雨。

Then, at some point in June, it goes very cold and rainy again.

这与一个横扫日本的低压锋有关。

And this is something to do with a large front of low pressure, which comes across Japan.

他们称之为梅雨季节，持续几周，天气一直阴冷多雨。

And it's they call it rainy season, and for for a few weeks, it's just cold, and it rains all the time.

真是糟糕透了。

It's miserable.

明白吗？

Okay?

但这种潮湿寒冷的天气对我来说并不陌生，你知道，这并没有让我感到意外，只是相当令人失望。

But this this wet and cold weather wasn't very strange to me, you know, it wasn't really a surprise to me, but it was quite disappointing.

显然，每天整天都下雨会让人有点沮丧。

Obviously, it's a bit depressing when it rains all day every day.

雨季过后，湿气和炎热就来了。

And then after rainy season, the humidity and the heat arrive.

所以那段时间，从七月一直到整个八月，甚至到九月的大部分时间都是如此。

So that's kind of like the July, all the way through the rest of July, all the way through August, and to be honest, most of September.

因此，这个湿热的时期对我来说真的很难熬。

And so that period, the humid and hot period, was really difficult for me.

正如我所说，在英国，当太阳出来时，我们会走出去，尽情享受这短暂的时光。

As I've said, in The UK, when the sun comes out and we go outside and and we enjoy it while it lasts.

说实话，关于英国天气的一个误解是它一直在下雨，但这并不真实。

To be honest, a myth about the weather in England is that it rains all the time, and that's not really true.

确实经常下雨，但并不是一直下。尽管最近我们的夏天异常潮湿，这可能与气候变化有关。

It does rain a lot, but not all the time, Although our summers recently have been unusually wet, probably due to climate change.

所以英国天气的主要特点其实是变化多端，非常不稳定。

So rather the main feature of the English weather is that it changes a lot, it's changeable.

夏天可能会有点热，但只持续几天，然后就凉快下来。

So you get it might be kind of hot in the summer, but only for a few days, and then it cools down.

可能会下点雨，但接着，你知道的，太阳又出来了。

It might rain a little bit, but then, you know, the sun comes out for a while.

所以天气变化很大，而我早已习惯了这种多变的天气。

So the the the weather kind of changes a lot, and I was used to this kind of changeable weather.

但在日本，雨季过后，夏天的天气却一直稳定不变。

But in Japan, in the summer, after the rainy season, the weather was just constant, just consistent.

连续几个月，长达两个半月到三个月，天气始终又热又湿，一成不变。

It was consistently very hot and very humid for months, like two and a half to three months of just the same weather all the way through.

这对我来说真的很奇怪，因为我的身体本以为天气会变化，给我一点机会凉快一下，但并没有。

Now that was really weird for me because my body was expecting the weather to change to give me a chance to kind of, you know, cool down a bit, but no, it didn't.

那时候就是又热又潮湿。

It was just hot and humid all the time.

温度在三十到四十摄氏度之间，湿度也达到百分之八十以上。

So between 30 to 40 degrees centigrade and sort of 80% humidity or more.

在东京市中心，如果你夏天去东京，气温大约会达到四十度，因为所有的空调都在往外排热。

In Central Tokyo, if you ever go into Tokyo in the middle of summer, it's about 40 degrees, because all of the air conditioning units are pumping out the heat.

阳光和热量被所有混凝土表面反射，导致热量无处散发。

The the sunlight and the heat reflect off all the concrete, and so the heat has nowhere to go.

事实上，到了晚上反而更热，因为所有建筑物的混凝土在白天吸收了热量，晚上又释放出来。

And, in fact, at night, it's even hotter because the concrete in all the buildings has actually absorbed the heat during the day, and then at night, it releases it.

热量实际上是从地下的石头、建筑物以及一切物体中散发出来的。

So the heat actually comes out of the stone in the ground and and the the buildings and everything.

热得不可思议。

It's incredibly hot.

这对我来说真的非常难以忍受。

So this was really, really difficult for me.

我的身体真的无法适应这种环境。

It it it's it's my body really couldn't, get used to it.

我几乎整个夏天都在出汗。

I spent, like, almost the entire summer sweating.

我不知道自己到底瘦了多少，但基本上是二十四小时、每周七天，一直在出汗。

I don't know how much I must have lost a lot of weight, but, basically, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, was just sweating.

晚上热得我连衣服都不穿，床上也不盖任何东西，可还是整晚都在出汗。

At night, I was so hot that I I slept without any clothes on and without any bed clothes covering me, and I would still sweat all night.

我醒来时枕头都是湿的。

I'd wake up with a wet pillow.

说到空调，你可能在想：你这个傻瓜，为什么不打开空调呢？

Now about air conditioning, you're probably thinking, why didn't you just put the air conditioning on, you idiot?

但说实话，我也受不了空调。

But, you know, I couldn't actually stand the air conditioning either.

我真的很讨厌空调。

I really hated air conditioning.

我觉得它让我脱水了，因为公寓里空调吹出的空气感觉很脏，还有点灰尘。

I felt like it was dehydrating me, because the air the air from my air conditioning in my apartment felt really dirty and kind of dusty.

在英国，你知道，我们很少使用空调，所以我并不习惯用它。

And in England, you know, we don't use air conditioning very much, so I wasn't very used to using it.

所以我宁愿不用它。

So I just preferred not to use it.

而且，我曾得到建议，说最好不要过多使用空调，应该尽量适应炎热。

And also, I'd been given advice that it was best not to use air conditioning too much and that you should just try to get used to the heat.

所以我决定尽量少用空调，也不喜欢睡觉时房间里空调对着我的头吹冷风的感觉。

So I decided that I would try not to use the air conditioning very much, and I didn't like the idea of sleeping in my room with the air conditioning on, you know, blowing cold air down onto my head as I slept.

我只是觉得那样不太健康。

I just didn't really think that was very healthy.

所以，总之，我决定不使用空调，也不盖被子，但还是整晚出汗，醒来时枕头都是湿的。

So, anyway, I decided that I would sleep without air conditioning and without any bed clothes, and and yet I would still sweat all night long and wake up with a wet pillow.

早上醒来时，我会浑身是汗。

I would you know, in the morning, I'd I'd be sweaty.

我会去洗澡。

I'd have my shower.

但因为天气又热又潮湿，我刚洗完澡擦干身体，没多久就又浑身是汗了。

But because it was so hot and humid, almost as soon as I came out of the shower and dried myself off, I'd be all wet again and sweaty.

我记得，我穿着西装去上班。

I remember, like, going to work in a suit.

我每天上班都必须穿黑色西装、打领带。

Like, I had to wear a suit, black suit and tie to work every day.

所以我走路去车站，一到车站就汗如雨下。

So I would walk to the station, and I would be pouring sweat as soon as I got to the station.

汗流浃背。

Just pouring sweat.

然后我上了火车，火车里空调开得特别足。

And then I'd get on the train, and the trains are very heavily air conditioned.

于是火车突然吹出刺骨的冷风，吹在我汗淋淋的脖子后面。

So they'd be the train is suddenly blowing ice cold air down the back of my neck, you know, with with my sweaty neck and everything.

在空调列车里冻了半小时后，我又回到酷热的街头，步行去上班，然后又被那里的空调冻得够呛。

And then after half an hour of being frozen in the air conditioned train, I'd get back out into the boiling hot street again and walk to work, and then get frozen by air conditioning there.

所以，你知道，这肯定对我的身体很不好，我变得非常疲惫。

So it was like, you know, it was like I'm sure it was very bad for me, and I got pretty exhausted.

我被工作压得喘不过气。

I got stressed out by work.

我没有吃均衡的饮食。

I didn't really eat a balanced diet.

我没有喝足够的水。

I didn't drink enough water.

我没有睡够觉。

I didn't sleep enough.

我睡觉时也不好好盖被子，这可不是个好主意。

I didn't really cover myself up in bed, which was a bad idea.

我周末总是熬夜，可能还喝得有点多。

I didn't I stayed up late at weekends, and I probably drank a bit too much.

另外，我记得夏天被蚊子叮过。

Also, I remember in summer getting bitten by a mosquito.

当时我非常小心，避免蚊子进入我的公寓，因为我们装了那种防虫纱窗。

Now I was very careful to avoid letting mosquitoes into my apartment, because we had one of those kind of insect screens.

所以我的卧室有一扇推拉玻璃门，可以直接通向阳台，阳台上种了一些植物，我会时不时给它们浇水。

So from my bedroom, I had like a sliding glass door which I could use to get onto the balcony, and I had some plants on the balcony which would water every now and then.

每次我出去时，都会特别注意关好防虫纱窗。

And I would be very careful to make sure that I closed the insect screen every time I went outside.

但我记得有一次，我忘了关上防虫纱窗，结果一只蚊子飞进了我的房间。

But I remember this one particular time, I forgot to close the insect screen, and of course, a mosquito came into my room.

一只幸运的蚊子溜了进来，我上床睡觉时连被子都没盖。

One lucky mosquito got in there, and, I went to bed, went to sleep, without my bed covers on.

对这只蚊子来说，这简直就像一个自助餐 buffet。

And this mosquito basically had a kind of it was like an all you can eat buffet, for this mosquito.

它尽情地吸了我的血，我发誓，就这一只蚊子，我被叮了大约十五次。

So he just feasted on me, and I swear I got bitten about 15 times by this one mosquito.

事实上，我记得早上醒来时在抓痒。

In fact, I remember waking up, in the morning scratching.

我睡觉时无意识地抓着手臂，然后醒了过来。

I was kind of scratching my arm in my sleep, and I woke up.

我看了看手臂，上面有血，因为我睡觉时不小心把这只蚊子捏死了。

And I looked at my arm, there was blood on my arm because I'd actually killed this mosquito in my sleep.

这只蚊子当时一定吃得饱饱的，而且非常困，才会在我睡觉时被我无意中抓死——我本能地抓向它叮咬我的地方。

This this must have been a very full and very sleepy mosquito at this point to let it actually be killed by me in my sleep, me instinctively kind of scratching my arm where this mosquito was biting me.

然后我意识到，我要打喷嚏了。

And then I realized, I'm gonna sneeze.

打喷嚏感觉真舒服。

It feels good to sneeze.

接着我想到，这只蚊子至少叮了我十五次，我的腿和手臂都已经开始发痒了。

And then I realized that this mosquito had bitten me something like 15 times and that my legs were itching already and my arms were itching.

这种持续不断的瘙痒真的让人很烦。

And so this constant itching was, like, really annoying.

这又是一件妨碍我好好睡觉的事情。

It was another thing that prevented me from sleeping properly.

我有一种奇怪的怀疑，也许这个蚊子 somehow 让我生病了。

And I've got this weird suspicion that maybe somehow the the the mosquito got me sick.

我不知道是怎么回事，但就在被这只蚊子叮了那么多次大约一周后，我开始感觉非常不舒服。

I don't know how, but it was about a week after being bitten by this mosquito so many times that I started to feel pretty sick.

我开始觉得像是得了流感，你知道的，感觉特别疲惫、头痛、发冷，浑身酸痛，鼻子堵塞。

I started to feel like I had flu, you know, like I was feeling really tired, headache, chill, you know, like cold chills, aches and pains in my body, blocked up nose.

我觉得我的淋巴结肿了。

I felt like my glands were swollen.

我感觉糟透了。

I felt awful.

我请了几天假在家休息，至少试图休息，但当然这很困难，因为天气太热了，我根本没法好好休息。

And I I took some time off work, and I lay in bed resting, or at least trying to rest, but, of course, that was difficult because it was so hot, so I couldn't really rest.

我的意思是，我记得有一天我感觉好了一些，觉得出去走走可能是个好主意，因为一直待在公寓里实在太难受了。

I mean, I've you know, I remember I I I kind of one day I felt kind of okay, and I thought it would probably be a good idea for me to just get outside a bit because staying indoors in in the in my apartment was miserable.

你知道吗，我当时感觉很抑郁，所以觉得出去走走是个好主意。

You know, I I just felt depressed, so I thought it would be a good idea for me to go out.

事实上，我去了一座当地的寺庙。

And in fact, I in fact, I went out to a local temple.

山上有一座寺庙。

There was a a kind of temple on the hillside.

于是我沿着山路散步，去看了那座寺庙。

So I went for a walk up there, and I I went to look at the temple.

那真是个令人惊叹的地方，位于日本神奈川县镰仓，那里有一尊巨大的青铜佛像端坐在寺庙中。

It was an amazing place, actually, this place in Kamakura in in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, where they have a huge bronze statue of a Buddha sitting there in the temple.

于是我前去参观这尊佛像，拍了一些照片，巧合的是，非常奇怪的是，我在那里遇到了戴夫·格罗尔，你可能知道他，也可能不知道。

So I went to check out this Buddha, and I took some photos, and by coincidence, very strangely enough, when I was there, I met Dave Grohl, who you might know, you might not know.

他是涅槃乐队的鼓手。

He but he's the drummer from Nirvana.

你知道那个和库尔特·科本一起的垃圾摇滚乐队——涅槃吗？

You know that grunge band with Kurt Cobain, Nirvana?

戴夫·格罗尔是涅槃乐队的鼓手。

Well, Dave Grohl is the drummer from Nirvana.

他是个超级摇滚明星。

He's a huge rock star.

他还是乐队“战斗机”以及其他几个乐队的成员。

He's also in the band the Foo Fighters and a few other bands and things.

我的意思是，这家伙是我偶像之一。

I mean, he's he's one of my heroes, this guy.

巧合的是，我在那里遇见了他，这实在太奇怪了，完全是我那个非常奇特的夏天的一部分。

And just by coincidence, I managed to meet him there, which was really strange, all part of this very strange summer that I was having.

当我走出寺庙时，我注意到一群外国人正走进来，像是西方人。

As I was walking out of the temple, I noticed a group of of foreign people walking in, like Westerners.

在日本看到西方人并不常见，所以我跟他们对视了一下，算是打个招呼。

And it's not very common to see Westerners when you're in Japan, so I kind of made eye contact with them as if to say sort of, hello.

你知道，你们也是西方人。

You know, you're Westerners as well.

我记得看着其中一个人，心想：哦，我认识他。

I remember looking at one of them and thinking, oh, I know him.

我怎么会认识他呢？

How do I know him?

当我从他身边走过时，我突然意识到：天哪。

And then as I walked past him, I realized, oh my god.

那是来自酷玩乐队的戴夫·格罗尔。

That's Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters.

然后，你知道，我折返回去，首先我想：算了。

And, you know, I went back and I I I first of all, I thought, no.

我要保持冷静。

I'm gonna be cool.

我不去打扰他。

I'm not gonna hassle him.

他可能正在度假。

He's probably on holiday.

但后来我走回去，鼓起勇气跟他搭话，终于和他合了张影。

But then I went back to him, and I I I kind of plucked up the courage to speak to him, and I I managed to get a photograph with him.

我还和他聊了几句。

And I had a little chat with him.

其实我们聊的是我的手机。

We talked about my mobile phone, actually.

这真是太奇怪了。

It was really strange.

我有点儿对他说：嘿。

I kind of said to him, hey.

不好意思。

Excuse me.

戴夫·格罗尔，你不是戴夫·格罗尔吗？

Dave Dave Grohl, aren't you?

你就是戴夫·格罗尔，对吧？

You're Dave Grohl, aren't you?

你为什么会在这里，在日本山顶的这座佛教寺庙里？

What the hell are you doing here at this Buddhist temple on the side of a hilltop in in Japan?

这真的很奇怪，但他们几天后将在东京举办音乐会，只是来寺庙逛逛而已。

And it was very strange, but they were playing a concert in Tokyo in a couple of days' time, and they were just visiting the temple to do a bit of sightseeing.

所以这太棒了。

So that was amazing.

我见到了我的偶像之一——戴夫·格罗尔，还和他聊了几句。

I met Dave Grohl, one of my heroes, and sort of, chatted to him.

总之，我感觉好了一点，就回去工作了，连续工作了八天。

So anyway, I kind of felt a little bit better, and I went back to work, and I had an eight day stretch.

也就是说，连续八天都在工作。

So that's, eight consecutive days of work.

到了第八天结束时，我已经累垮了。

And by the end of that eight days, I was just knackered.

我精疲力尽，甚至感觉更糟了。

I was absolutely exhausted, and I actually felt worse.

我又感觉生病了。

I felt ill again.

事实上，我比之前病得更厉害了。

In fact, I felt more ill than I did before.

然后我休息了三天，只是尽力休息。

And I had I had then three days off, and I just tried to rest.

我躺在床上，想睡觉，但根本睡不着。

I lay in bed, tried to sleep, but I couldn't really sleep.

我淋巴结肿大，扁桃体很痛。

I had swollen glands painful tonsils.

扁桃体是位于你口腔后部的腺体，尤其是在青少年或年幼时，很容易感染扁桃体。

Your tonsils are glands at the back of your mouth, and it's quite common to get an infection in your tonsils, particularly when you're a teenager or when you're quite young.

当我精疲力竭时，经常得扁桃体炎，这次我得了严重的扁桃体感染，疼得要命。

And I used to get tonsil infections quite a lot when I was exhausted, and this particular time I got a really bad tonsil infection, so it was incredibly painful.

我连吞咽都做不到。

I couldn't swallow.

如果你知道吞咽的意思，就是吃东西或喝水的时候。

If you know what swallow means, it's to go, you know, when you eat food or drink.

我吞不下东西，因为太疼了。

I couldn't swallow because it was too painful.

我吃不了东西。

I couldn't eat.

我几乎只能吃香蕉，因为它是软的，还有味噌汤。

All I could well, all I could eat was was banana because it was soft and miso soup.

所以我一直在喝味噌汤，吃香蕉，但其实我根本吃不下、喝不下多少。

So I had all this miso soup, and I was just trying to drink miso soup and trying to eat banana, but, really, I couldn't eat or drink very much.

太糟糕了。

It was awful.

我状态真的很差。

I I was in a really bad condition.

我当时有个日本女友。

My girlfriend I I did have a Japanese girlfriend at the time.

她算是半美半日，因为她爸爸，不是。

She was kinda, like, half American, half Japanese because her dad, no.

她是四分之一美国血统，因为她爸爸是半美半日，妈妈是日本人。

She was, like, quarter American because her dad was half American and her mum was Japanese.

所以她是四分之三日本血统，四分之一美国血统。

So she was like three quarters Japanese and one quarter American.

她是个可爱的女孩，当时我和她正在交往。

Lovely girl who I was going out with at the time.

但讽刺的是，那时她正和父母在英国度假，而我独自一人在日本，感觉非常糟糕。

But she, ironically, was at that time on holiday with her parents in England, while I was in Japan, feeling awful alone.

实际上，那真的很糟糕。

And so it was terrible, actually.

那是段特别难熬的时光。

It was a really bad time.

我唯一能做的就是尽量休息，试着吃点东西。

All I could do was just sort of try and rest and try and eat.

最终，我的女朋友回来了，一发现我不舒服，她立刻安排我去看医生。

Eventually, my girlfriend came back, and immediately, when she realised that I wasn't well, she arranged for me to go to the doctors.

那真是一段糟糕的经历，因为第一个医生，我觉得他根本不想见我，可能是因为我是个外国人。

And this was really a horrible experience because the first doctor that we went to just I I think he just didn't want to see me because, I don't know, maybe because I was a foreigner.

在日本，他们有时候对外国人确实会有点奇怪。

And over there in Japan, they, you know, they can be a bit strange with foreigners sometimes.

我觉得他处理我这件事有点不方便，毕竟我不会说日语，这怪我。

I think it was a bit inconvenient for him to have to deal with me, the fact that I didn't speak Japanese, you know, that's my fault.

我没学过日语。

I didn't learn Japanese.

所以医生对我态度并不友好。

So the doctor was not friendly with me.

我有医疗保险，但他还是不太愿意接待我。

I had health insurance, but he still, you know, didn't really want to deal with me.

最后，我的女朋友说服了他，让我进了他的诊所。

Eventually my girlfriend persuaded him to let me into his surgery.

那家诊所也非常忙，他没多少时间理我。

It was a very busy surgery too, and he didn't have much time for me.

他完全不友好，而且我在他诊所里感受到的整体氛围非常陈旧，简直有种维多利亚时代的气息。

He wasn't friendly at all, and generally the kind of the feeling that I got in his doctor's surgery was that it was very old fashioned, a kind of Victorian kind of vibe that I got from it, in fact.

我感觉我不受欢迎，整个事情对他来说只是个麻烦。

I got the sense that I wasn't welcome, and the whole the whole thing was just an inconvenience for him.

于是他让我坐在一把类似老式牙科椅的椅子上。

And so he sat me in this kind of chair, which which was like a sort of old fashioned dentist's chair.

我坐得笔直，脖子上还戴着一个颈托。

So I sat very upright with a neck brace around me.

让我特别不舒服的是，我能看到旁边玻璃柜里所有的医疗器具，还有护士和其他人在我身后走来走去。

And what was very, really off putting for me is that I could see all of his medical instruments in a in a glass cabinet next to me, and there were, like, nurses and other people walking around behind me.

那是个有点昏暗的房间。

It was like a sort of dark room.

他拿出了一些器械，有一根长金属杆，末端带着棉签，他把棉签蘸进了消毒液里。

And he he took out some of his instruments, He had like a long metal rod with a swab at the end, that's kind of like a piece of cotton at the end, and he dipped it into some antiseptic.

他处理我的扁桃体感染和喉咙感染的方式，就是用这个棉签，把抗菌液涂在我的扁桃体上。

And his way of dealing with my tonsil infection, my throat infection, was to basically use this swab and kind of paint my tonsils with antiseptic.

如果你能想象那有多疼，那简直太糟糕了。

Now, if you can imagine how painful that was, that was awful.

那真是我经历过的最痛苦的事情之一，疼得不得了。

It was it was one of the it was just horrible how painful it was.

他把那东西伸进我喉咙深处，往我的扁桃体上涂抗菌液，疼得我根本忍不住咳嗽。

So he was there sticking this thing down the back of my throat, covering my tonsils in antiseptic, and it was so awful that I couldn't help coughing.

我一边咳嗽，一边把抗菌液喷得他满脸都是。

And I was, like, coughing the the antiseptic back into his face.

那真的太糟糕了。

It was just awful.

我的意思是，这简直是一场令人作呕的噩梦。

I mean, just a disgusting experience, really, really a nightmare.

他甚至都没给我开任何药。

He he didn't even give me any medicine.

他没有给我任何抗生素治疗我的扁桃体感染。

He didn't give me any antibiotics for my tonsil infection.

他甚至没有给我做血液检查来弄清楚我哪里出了问题。

He didn't even give me a blood test to see what was wrong with me.

当时我其实并不懂。

And at the time, I didn't really know.

我只是知道自己感觉非常、非常糟糕。

I just knew that I felt really, really bad.

所以他只是让我回去休息。

And so he just told me to go away and have rest.

于是我试着休息。

So I tried to rest.

我又请了几天假，努力休息，但没什么用。

I took another couple of days off work and tried to rest, but it didn't work.

事实上，我感觉更糟了，更加疲惫。

In fact, I started to feel even worse, even more exhausted.

所以，是的，我继续生病了。

So, yeah, I continued to get ill.

几天后，我回到了这位医生那里，这非常尴尬，因为我遇到了我女朋友的父亲。

A couple of days later, I went back to this doctor, and this was very awkward because I met my girlfriend's dad.

那是我第一次见她父亲，而这种情况根本不是第一次见面的好时机。

Now, it was the first time that I'd met her dad, which was not really the it wasn't really a great situation to be meeting him for the first time.

你知道，我看起来糟透了。

You know, I looked awful.

我基本上看起来像个僵尸。

I looked like a zombie, basically.

你知道，就好像我女朋友在说：‘爸爸，我想介绍一下我的男朋友。’

You know, it's as if my girlfriend was going, well, dad, I'd like to meet my boyfriend.

他就是。

Here he is.

他是个英国僵尸。

He's an English zombie.

我就这样走进去，你知道的，这绝对不是给人留下好印象的方式。

And I kind of walked in, you know, not exactly the best way to make a good impression.

不过，他对我非常友善，而且他明白我身体不太舒服。

Anyway, he was very nice to me, and, you know, he understood that I wasn't very well.

他们又把我带进了医生的诊疗室，这次医生觉得给我开一些抗生素可能是个好主意。

And they took me into the doctor's surgery again, and the doctor this time decided that it might be a good idea to give me some antibiotics.

他给我开了三天的抗生素药量。

And he gave three days' worth of antibiotics.

抗生素是用于治疗感染的药物。

Antibiotics are those medicines that you need to deal with infection.

比如，青霉素就是一种抗生素。

For example, penicillin is an antibiotic.

所以他给了我三天的抗生素药片，这些小小的药片，我立刻就知道这点剂量肯定不够，因为你知道，我个子很高，体型也比较大，需要的抗生素剂量也得多一些。

So he gave me three days' worth of antibiotics, these tiny little antibiotics pills, and I knew immediately that this wasn't going to be enough, because, you know, I'm quite a tall, quite a big guy, I need quite a large dose of antibiotics.

我早就对抗生素产生了一定的耐药性，因为年轻时我经常得扁桃体炎。

I've already kind of built up a resistance to antibiotics, because, when I was younger, had, tonsillitis quite regularly when I was young.

扁桃体炎，如果你还不知道那是什么，那就是喉咙后部腺体的感染。

Tonsillitis, if you don't already realise what that is, that's an infection of glands at the back of your throat.

腺体是身体中负责产生激素、唾液、汗液等物质的部位。

So glands are parts of your body which are responsible for producing things like hormones or producing saliva or sweat, things like that.

你的喉咙里有腺体，头部后方有腺体，腋下和其他身体部位也有腺体。

You have glands in your throat, you have glands around the back of your head, you have them in your armpits and in various other parts of your body.

所以我得了扁桃体炎，那就是喉咙腺体的感染。

So I had tonsillitis, so that's like a infection of the glands in your throat.

我年轻时多次患上扁桃体炎，因此英国的医生已经多次给我开过抗生素。

And I'd had tonsillitis quite a few times when I was younger, and so my doctors in England had given me antibiotics already a lot of times for that.

所以我清楚，要让抗生素起效，我需要相当大的剂量。

And so I knew that I needed quite a large dose of antibiotics in order for them to work.

于是，我勉强带着这些抗生素回了家，服用了它们，但没什么效果，我依然感觉不舒服。

So I kind of reluctantly went back home to my apartment with these antibiotics, and I took them, but it didn't work, and and I just continued to to feel ill.

所以我和我女朋友也不太清楚。

So my girlfriend and I don't know.

我和这个女孩已经没有联系了。

I'm I'm not in touch with this girl anymore.

我们因为各种原因失去了联系。

I just we lost touch for various reasons.

那是很久以前的事了。

It's it's a long time ago.

但如果你在听的话，那祝你一切安好，因为你真的照顾了我。

But if you're listening, then, you know, god bless you, basically, because you really looked after me.

我非常感激。

I really appreciate it.

但她给我找了另一位医生，因为我们觉得之前的医生纯粹是浪费时间。

But the she she found me another doctor because we decided that this other doctor was just a waste of time.

所以她给我找了一位靠近我学校的医生，实际上，他就在我不再工作的那所学校附近开了诊所。

So she found me another doctor near my school, actually, kind of he had a surgery near the school that I I used to work in.

我又像僵尸一样去了这家诊所。

And I I came into this surgery again like a zombie.

我走进去的时候感觉糟透了。

I kind of walked in feeling awful.

巧合的是，这位医生是我的一个学生。

And by coincidence, this doctor was, one of my students.

我根本没意识到这家伙是诊所的医生。

I didn't realize that this guy was a doctor at the surgery.

他只是我的众多学生中的一个。

He was just another one of my students.

我在那所学校见过数百名学生，其中一位就是这个家伙。

Now I kind of met hundreds of students at this school, and one of them was this guy.

所以这真是太好了。

And so this this was good.

这真的很不错，因为我已经和这位家伙有过交往。

This was really nice because I already had a relationship with this guy.

他早就认识我了。

He already knew me.

而且你知道，作为他的老师，我早就给了他很多关注和关心。

And, you know, the fact is that as a teacher with him, I'd I'd, you know, given him a lot of attention and care already.

我已经和他建立了一种关系。

I'd, like, already built up a kind of relationship with the guy.

所以这真的很好，因为他比我遇到的另一位医生更关心我。

And so this was really good because he cared about me a lot more than the other guy did, the other doctor.

因此，这位医生对我特别上心，决定一定要让我感觉好起来。

So this doctor took a, you know, a kind of special interest in in me, and he decided that he was gonna definitely try and make me feel better.

我的意思是，不管怎样，这本来就是医生该做的事。

I mean, anyway, that's what a doctor is supposed to do.

对吧？

Right?

所以，你知道，这并不令人意外。

So, you know, it was no great surprise.

但无论如何，因为我早就认识他，所以和他在一起我感觉更自在。

But, anyway, I felt more comfortable with this guy because I already knew him.

并不是他的英语很好。

Not that his English was very good.

事实上，他的英语非常基础，尽管显然他拥有世界上最好的英语老师——我。

In fact, his English was very basic, despite the fact that, obviously, he had the most amazing English teacher in the world, me.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Right.

所以他帮我调理了一下。

So he kind of sorted me out a bit.

他给我做了血液检查，并给我打了静脉输液。

He gave me a blood test and he put me on an intravenous drip.

那就是说，直接把药物输入你的血液中。

That's when basically they medicine directly into your blood.

所以他们会把一根管子连接到你手臂或手背的静脉上，然后挂上一个装满药物的塑料袋，药物通过一根细管直接进入你的血液，形成静脉滴注。

So they kind of attach something to your vein in your arm or in the back of your hand, and then they then hook up a kind of plastic bag full of medicine, which then comes down a small tube and goes directly into your blood as an IV drip.

所以他给我输了抗生素点滴，因为他意识到我需要大量抗生素，这让我感觉好多了。

So he gave me an IV drip of antibiotics, because he realised that I needed a, you know, a really good dose of antibiotics, and that made me feel much better.

我躺在病床上半小时，所有的抗生素都通过手臂输入体内，我立刻就开始感觉好转了。

I lay there in this bed for half an hour while all the antibiotics went into my arm, and I immediately started to feel better.

这简直太神奇了。

It was incredible, actually.

我回家后，感觉好多了。

And I went home and feeling, you know, a lot better.

当然还不算完美，但肯定比之前好很多了。

Not perfect by any means, certainly better than I had done.

第二天，我回到这位医生那里去拿血液检查结果，我心里想，我应该没事了，感觉好多了。

And the next day, I went back to this doctor in order to get the results of my blood test, and I was thinking, I'm going to be all right, you know, I'm feeling better.

我肯定只是扁桃体发炎，现在用了抗生素，感觉好多了。

I'm sure it was just tonsillitis, and now that I've had these antibiotics, I'm feeling a lot better.

但我还是觉得很难受，仍然非常疲惫，状态很差。

But I still felt pretty awful, you know, I still felt pretty exhausted and really in a bad way.

于是我去了诊所，医生告诉我血液检查的结果。

And so I went into the surgery, and the doctor gave me the results of the blood test.

请注意，这位医生的英语不太好，而我的日语也不怎么样。

Now bear in mind that this doctor's English wasn't very good, and obviously I didn't speak very good Japanese either.

所以他跟我说的很多话都因语言障碍而丢失了。

So kind of a lot of what he said to me was quite was lost in translation.

所以我完全误解了他的话。

So I misunderstood really what he was saying.

但他对我说：‘好了，卢克。’

But what he said to me was, okay, Luke.

你有肝脏损伤。

You have, you have liver damage.

所以你的肝脏已经受损了。

So your liver is is damaged.

他给我看了我的检查结果，并说：‘你的肝脏正常值应该是50左右。’

And he showed me, my results, and he said, this is what your liver should be, and it's something like 50.

我其实不太明白这些数字的意思，但他告诉我，你的肝脏应该在50左右，而你的肝脏却达到了250。

I don't know really what the numbers meant, but he said, your liver should be at around 50, but your liver is about two fifty.

所以我心想，好吧，这真的很严重，对吧？

So I was thinking, okay, that's that's really bad, isn't it?

所以他告诉我，你有肝脏损伤。

So he said, you've liver damage.

你必须去医院，而且需要做手术。

You have to go to hospital, and you will need an operation.

对吧？

Right?

所以，我立刻开始慌了，心想：什么？

So, obviously, immediately, I I started to kind of panic, because I thought, what?

我有肝脏损伤。

I've got liver damage.

我得去医院，还得做手术。

I need to go to hospital, and I need an operation.

所以当时我立刻以为他意思是我说不定得了什么肝脏方面的病，他还跟我说，是的。

So immediately, I was assuming that he meant that I had, like, some sort of liver oh, he also said to me, yeah.

你感染了EB病毒。

You've got the EB virus.

我根本不知道EB病毒是什么东西。

I didn't know what the hell the EB virus was.

我当时想，天哪。

I was thinking, my god.

这到底是什么？

What is this?

一种可怕的肝脏疾病吗？

Some sort of horrific liver disease?

我得去医院，还得做肝脏手术。

And I'm gonna need to go to a hospital, and I'm gonna need to have a liver operation.

我得把肝脏换了。

I'm gonna have to have my liver, changed.

那时候我就是这么想的。

That's what I was thinking at this time.

你知道吗，这完全把我吓坏了。

You know, it completely freaked me out.

我特别害怕。

I was so frightened.

就在那时，我几乎崩溃了，心里一直想，天哪。

And I kind of broke down at that point, and I was just thinking, oh my god.

我真的病得很重。

I'm really ill.

我得去医院，做肝脏手术。

I've gotta go to a hospital, have a liver operation.

这简直是一场噩梦。

This is an absolute nightmare.

那真是太糟糕了。

And it was awful.

那真是太糟糕了。

It was just terrible.

他们带我去了一家医院，给我办理了住院，下一秒我就躺在了日本一家医院的病床上。

I they took me to a hospital, checked me into a hospital, and next thing you know, I was lying in a bed, in a Japanese hospital.

他们带我去的是横须贺的金久佐医院，离我住的地方很近。

They took me to Kinugasar Hospital in Yokosuka, which was near to where I was living.

就在那里。

And there it was.

我在医院里。

I was in hospital.

我完全不知道自己哪里出了问题。

I had no idea what was wrong with me.

据我所知，我得了某种肝病，过一两天就得做手术。

As far as I knew, I I had, like, some liver disease, and I was gonna have to have an operation in a in a day or two.

于是我躺在那里。

And so I lay there.

我记得在那里度过的第一个晚上，印象非常深刻。

I remember the I clearly remember the first night that I had there.

我到达的时候，大约是晚上十点。

And I when I arrived, it was about 10:00 at night.

当时是我女朋友的妈妈和我女朋友送我去的医院。

And, like, my my girlfriend's mom and my girlfriend took me to the hospital.

她们也说不清楚到底是什么情况。

They couldn't really explain what what it was.

你知道的吗？

You know?

说实话，我当时状态很差，神志不清，可能还相当多疑。

They were to be honest, I I I was in such a kind of bad way that I was confused and probably quite paranoid.

那真是一个非常糟糕的时刻。

And so that was a really bad moment.

我记得躺在床上，努力不让自己恐慌。

And I remember lying in the bed just trying not to panic, basically.

只是躺在那里想睡觉，想休息，努力让自己保持冷静，试着在脑子里和自己玩游戏，以阻止自己思考，阻止自己担心健康问题。

Just lying there trying to sleep, just trying to rest, trying to keep myself calm, just trying to play games with myself in my head to stop me thinking, to stop me worrying about my health.

于是我躺在那里想，好吧。

So I was lying there thinking, okay.

尽量别去想。

Just try not to think.

别太担心。

Try not to worry too much.

你现在在医院里。

You're in hospital now.

这很好。

That's good.

为了让自己保持冷静，我一遍又一遍地玩字母表游戏。

So just to keep myself calm, I played the ABC game over and over again.

你可能已经知道这个游戏了。

That's where you you might know the game already.

就是选一个主题，然后试着列出该主题下以字母表每个字母开头的事物。

That's where you pick a subject and just try and list things that begin with each letter of the alphabet for that subject.

所以我尽可能多地玩了很多次ABC游戏。

And so I just could you know, I just played as many a b c games as I possibly could.

就是说，好吧。

It was like, okay.

男孩的名字。

So boys' names.

对。

Right.

安德鲁、本、克里斯、丹尼尔、爱德华。

Andrew, Ben, Chris, Daniel, Edward.

你知道的。

You know?

女孩的名字。

Girls' names.

好的。

Okay.

安妮、贝琳达、卡罗琳、丹妮丝、伊丽莎。

Anne, Belinda, Caroline, Denise, Elisa.

你知道的。

You know?

我整晚都在脑子里玩这个游戏，只是为了不让我去想那些事。

And I just kept playing this game in my head all night just to stop me thinking about things.

我记不清我玩过的所有主题了，但有些随机的，比如，好吧。

I I got to I can't remember all of the different subjects that I covered, but just some random things like, okay.

气味，各种气味。

Smells, different smells.

好的。

Okay.

苦艾酒、电池，你知道的，所有这些类似的东西。

Absinthe, battery, you know, all these sorts of things.

不知为什么，在玩字母表游戏时，字母Q和字母Z总是最难想到单词的。

For some reason, the letter q and the letter zed are always the hardest ones to to find words for when you're playing the ABC game.

但不管怎样，那真的太糟糕了。

But, anyway so, yeah, I I it was horrible.

他们给了我很多药物。

They they kind of gave me lots of drugs.

他们给我打了更多的静脉点滴。

They gave me more intravenous drips.

事实上，每天我都要接受大约五到六个小时的静脉点滴治疗。

In fact, every day I had about I had intravenous drips for about five to six hours every day.

你现在可能在想，卢克，你到底怎么了？

Now you're probably thinking to yourself, what what was what was it, Luke?

你病得有多严重？

How ill were you?

你到底得了什么病？

What did you have?

你到底哪里不舒服？

What was wrong with you?

嗯，直到我女朋友的父母联系了我的父母，并把他们知道的所有信息、医生告诉他们的内容都告诉了我父母，我才知道真相。

Well, I still didn't really know until my until my girlfriend's parents contacted my parents and told them everything that they knew, everything that the doctors had told them.

他们联系了我的父母，把所有情况都告诉了他们。

They contacted my parents and told them all of that.

当时我在医院里有一部手机，上面可以收发邮件。

And I had a mobile phone in the hospital, which had email on it.

所以我最终收到了父母发来的一封邮件。

And so I eventually got an email from my parents.

他们显然非常担心我，于是仔细查了我所有的症状，以及医生通过我女朋友父母转述给他们的所有信息。

Obviously, they were very worried about me, and they checked out all of the symptoms that I had and everything that the doctor had told them, you know, via my girlfriend's parents.

他们在网上查了所有资料，最终弄清楚了我到底得了什么病。

They checked it all out on the internet and they'd worked out what I actually had.

于是他们给我发了这封邮件，详细解释了一切，这让我如释重负，因为原来我并没有患上某种可怕的、危及生命的肝病。

So they sent me this email which explained everything to me, and this was a huge relief because it turns out that I didn't have some kind of horrible life threatening liver disease.

我得了传染性单核细胞增多症，这种病也叫腺热，其实是一种相当常见的病毒。

I had infectious mononucleosis, which is otherwise known as glandular fever, and that's actually quite a common virus, let's say.

这是一种感染腺体的病毒，症状包括导致肝脏损伤，因为你的血液中白细胞数量很高，所以肝脏必须拼命工作，试图清除血液中的白细胞。

It's a virus which infects the glands and the symptoms are that it gives you liver damage because you've got a high white blood cell count in your blood, and so your liver is like working hard to try and try to clean out the white blood cells from your from your blood.

这其实挺常见的。

So it's quite a common thing.

我不需要做手术。

I didn't need to have an operation.

事实上，医生原本的意思是，他说：好吧，你有肝脏损伤。

In fact, what the doctor had actually meant was, he said, Okay, so you've got liver damage.

这很正常。

That's normal.

这是腺热的正常症状。

It's a normal symptom of glandular fever.

另一件事是什么？

What was the other thing?

你的肝脏受损了。

You've liver damage.

你必须去医院。

You have to go to a hospital.

所以他告诉我这个的原因是我需要住院休息。

So the reason he told me that was because I had to go to hospital in order to rest.

我只需要休息，接受药物和治疗，基本上就是休息几周。

I just needed to rest and to get medicine and treatment, and I just needed rest basically for for a few weeks.

你需要做手术。

And you will need an operation.

他意思是，由于我扁桃体感染频繁，最终我需要切除扁桃体，他认为这对我有好处。

What he meant there was that I would eventually need to have my tonsils removed because of the frequency at which I was having infections in my tonsils, he decided that it would be a good idea for me to have my tonsils removed.

这跟肝移植之类的事情完全没关系。

So it was nothing to do with having a liver transplant or anything like that.

我当时只是吓坏了。

I was just panicking at that point.

所以当我了解到我得的其实是一种很常见的病毒时，这种病毒很普遍，如果不休息，症状可能会很严重。

So when I learned that actually I had quite a common virus I mean, it's quite common, and the symptoms can be quite serious if you don't rest.

而且，你知道，我之前一直在上班，饮食不规律，也不休息，所以感觉糟糕透了。

And, you know, obviously what I had been doing is going to work and not eating properly and not resting, and so I felt absolutely awful.

我当时感觉，就像奄奄一息一样。

I felt, you know, like I was on death's door.

但这并不是一种危及生命的疾病。

But it wasn't a life threatening illness.

事实上，这是一种很常见的病，而我在医院里正好可以放松、好好休养。

In fact, it was quite a common illness, and I was in the right place in a hospital there to relax and take it easy.

所以，所有那些恐慌、担忧和疑神疑鬼都是完全没有必要的。

And so all of that panic and all that worry and paranoia was unnecessary.

而一旦我意识到自己会好起来，我就放松了很多。

And then as soon as I realised that I was going to be alright, I relaxed quite a lot.

事实上，在医院里，某种程度上还挺有意思的。

And in fact, being in that hospital was was quite fun in a way.

在日本住院的经历非常有趣。

It was quite an quite an interesting experience being in a hospital in Japan.

正如我所说，我是医院里唯一的外国人，除了一个在那里做木工的印尼人，他更像是医院的护工之类的。

I was the only, as I said, the only foreign person in the hospital, except for an Indonesian guy who worked there as a carpenter, or he was like a caretaker or something in in the hospital.

医院的工作人员不知怎么决定让这个叫昌德拉的印尼人当我的翻译。

And he that, like, somehow the the staff in the hospital decided that this guy, this Indonesian guy called Chandra, should be my kind of interpreter.

昌德拉自己的英语其实也不太好，但比医院的日本医护人员强多了。

Now Chandra didn't really speak very much English himself, but he was a lot better than the Japanese staff in the hospital.

于是昌德拉先生会来看我，和我聊天，问我午餐和晚餐想吃什么。

And so Chandra san would come and visit me, and he would talk to me and ask me what I wanted to eat for for my lunch and dinner.

这真是太好了。

And it was great.

我基本上整天都躺在床上。

I basically lay there in the bed, all day.

朋友们来看望我，这太棒了，他们给我带来了书、音乐等东西。

My friends came to visit me, which was fantastic, and they brought me books and and music and stuff.

我花了大约两周时间躺在床上，有人把饭菜送到我床边。

And I spent about two weeks lying down in bed, having people bring meals to my bed.

我有一个放松用的冰枕。

I had, like, a relaxing ice pillow.

护士们会来检查我是否安好。

Nurses would come and, and make sure I was okay.

事实上，医院那个病区的所有护士都决定来探望我，因为对她们来说，有一个英国人在医院里是一种相当令人兴奋的新鲜事。

In fact, all the nurses in the hospital in that particular ward decided they would come and visit me, because it was I think for them, it was kind of like quite an exciting novelty to have an English guy in the hospital.

所以她们都来探望我，想和我聊天，而我简直成了病房里的明星。

So they'd all come and visit me and, you know, they'd all want to talk to me and stuff, and I was kind of like the star of the the hospital ward.

大多数时候，她们都让我一个人待着，我只是躺在那里，戴着耳机听环境音乐，读《指环王》。

And most of the time, they left me alone, and I just lay there listening to ambient music on my headphones, reading the Lord of the Rings.

我读完了整个《指环王》三部曲，这太棒了，因为我非常喜爱这些书。

I I read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy, which was fantastic because I love those books.

这些书真的非常非常出色。

They're really, really great.