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.
选择
在繁忙的杂货店里，我想知道是否会有人帮助那位摔倒的老太太，她的袋子里装满了杂货。一个男人匆忙走过她身边，一对夫妇朝另一个方向看去，一个十几岁的少年绕过破碎的鸡蛋，板着一张嫌弃的脸。我看到一位妻子拉着她的丈夫离开，“别管她，会有其他人帮她的。”一个小男孩捡起一个滚到他脚边的罐头。他的母亲让他放下罐头，一把把他拽到她身边。当我收拾起她的杂货时，我为那么多人选择看而不是去看到感到悲伤。
- grocery /ˈɡrəʊsəri/
- a shop that sells food and other things used in the home. In American English ‘grocery store’ is often used to mean ‘supermarket’.食品杂货店（在美式英语中 grocery store 常用以指 supermarket）
- skirt /skɜːt/
- to be or go around the edge of something环绕…的四周；位于…的边缘；沿…的边缘走
- sour /ˈsaʊər/
- (of people人) not cheerful; unfriendly and unpleasant阴郁的；闷闷不乐的；没好气的
- sadden /ˈsædn/
- to make somebody sad使悲伤；使伤心；使难过
