失落之地——三三首部科幻题材英文原创

无意之中看到三三同学写的英语作品，内容要求是写一次幻想旅程，她挥挥洒洒写了500多字，严重超标。就在她删除修改之前，我赶紧拷贝下来以做纪念。

失落之地——作者：三三

My Imaginary Trip

"No,no,no–I'm going to lose everything?!"

As my hand held the edge of my table tighter,the computer ignored my painful shout and kept counting down.Three–two–one–

Beep.

Then all that left on the screen is black.Deep black.Just like the scene you'll see when you are trapped in the dark under 4000 metre of water in Pacific ocean.

I fell in to the chair,breathless.

My assignments.My article.The websites I opened–

All gone.

Everything was spinning around,the save button I've forgotten to press,caption running"low power,shutdown after 5 seconds"…

Blank space spread in my head.I was so in chaos that when I opened my eyes and saw nothing but pure white,I didn't panic at all."Ow,now everything is over,"I murmured."My painstaking efforts…and they are all–wait."I popped out from the daze and frowned deeply,"Why still I aren't able to see?Where are the colors?What happened to my eyes?"

Just then a fruity voice rang out in my head.

"Well,well,well.Look who is desperate."

I stand up from the chair immediately and turned around,then surprisedly realized that I could see my soft chair clearly,but it was standing quietly on a white ground,like the floor in a lavatory of a somewhat obsessively clean scientist.Obviously not my room.I shouted:"What is this place?! "

That smooth voice appeared again."Greetings,Miss.This is the place of where lost digital data lies,and I,"I swear that the owner of the voice smirked,"...am their keeper."

I know it sounds weird,but the thing is I have wondered about a place like this thousands of times when similar events happen.So I decided determinedly not to ask more questions as if this dream-like space will disappear in the next moment,and said loudly:"Do you mean that I can get my assignments back?"

"Nope."The voice didn't even hesitate."You need to know,Miss,the lost data here is numerous-just a little fewer than the stars in universe.Lots of them are much more significant than yours,someone would even die for them.Do you think I'm patient enough for picking yours out?By the way,It's just a coincidence that you're standing here."

"Oh well,"I sighed.Hope faded away.I sat back to my chair,and hid my head in the crook of my arm.

For a while,silence folded the whole world.

"I sympathize with you,"The voice  said a moment later.

"I'm just really confused why human keep loosing their important data on electronic equipments.I mean,it's just a save button,right?After all,why don't people put their substantial things on real pages like papers and boxes?"

The voice sounded a little sad."I remember the old days...children play on the green field,not with game machines;young people keep the letters and hearts in beautiful wooden desks,sometimes with a delicate lock...Alas!Look what you've lost today;it's far more than electronic data!"

I try to say something,but suddenly the white space around me began to spin around like a high speed carousel.I was in a daze for a quite long time before I recovered-the scene gradually became clearer,my table,my books,and my computer,with only deep black left on the screen.I glared at my chair,and saw some spots of pure white color on the arms of its soft material.

I sat there for a while.Then I closed the computer and made for the other side of the room.

I opened the windows,then gazed into the distance through tall shining buildings and the lilac sky.

我的译稿：

失落之地

“不，不，不——我要做的东西全部都丢了吗？！”

我的手紧紧抓着桌沿，可计算机不理这套，它无视我痛苦的大喊，屏幕上倒计时：3-2-1-

嘀！

然后屏幕一片漆黑。黑得那么绝望，仿佛被困在4000米之下的太平洋海底。

我跌坐回椅子，气息奄奄。

我的作业啊，我的文章啊，我打开的那些网页啊啊啊……

都没了。

我一阵头晕目眩，眼前出现了自己忘记按下的保存按钮，还有屏幕上的提示“电量低，5秒之后即将自动关机……”

空格键占据了我的大脑，我闭上了眼睛。我的思维如此之乱，以至于当我睁开眼睛时，什么都看不见，只有一片空白。这没什么好惊慌的，“唉，全完了，”我嘟囔着，“我辛辛苦苦的成果啊……就这么——等一下！”从茫然中我忽然警醒，皱起了眉头：“为什么我现在还是看不见东西？颜色到哪儿去了？我的眼睛出什么问题了？”

正在这时一个甜美的声音出现在我脑海里：

“哎呀呀呀，看看谁这么绝望。”

我立即从椅子里站起身来转头四处张望，惊讶地发现我其实可以清楚的看见我柔软的椅子，不过它正静静地放在一片白色地面上，像某位有洁癖的科学家的实验室地板一样白。这儿显然不是我的房间。我大叫起来：“这是什么地方？！”

那个甜美的声音再次出现：“欢迎，小姐。这是数据丢失之地，至于我呢，”我发誓那个声音的主人一定笑得很得意，“我是它们的管理员。”

我知道这听起来很荒谬，但每当同样的事情发生时我曾经成百上千次设想过是否有这么一个地方，所以我决定不再对这件事的合理性发问，以免下一秒它就会消失不见，我赶紧大声问道：“你是说我能把我的作业再找回来吗？”

“不行。”那声音斩钉截铁地回答，“你要知道，小姐啊，这里存放的丢失数据多得好像宇宙里的星辰。它们当中有不少都比你的作业要重要得多，有些人甚至愿意为了它们去死。你不会以为我有那个耐心帮你把作业从它们当中挑出来吧，啊？再说了，你出现在这里完全是个意外。”

“好吧。”我叹了一口气，希望又破灭了。我坐回椅子，把头埋在手臂中间。

沉默了很长时间。

“我很同情你，”那声音再次响起。

“我就是不明白为什么人们总会在电子设备上不停丢失重要的数据呢？我是说，只要按个保存键，对吧？说到底，人们为什么不把重要的东西保存在真正的实体上呢？比如说写在纸上，或者放在盒子里？

它的语气有些伤感：“我还记得以前的日子……孩子们在绿色的草坪上做游戏，而不是玩游戏机；年轻人把字句和爱心放在美丽的木桌里，有时还会上一把精致的锁……天啊，看看你们今天都丢了什么？绝不仅仅是电子数据！”

我刚想开口想说点什么，不过在我周围的白色忽然像高速旋转木马一样旋转起来。我晕了好长时间才缓过气，等我的视线变得清晰，我的桌子、书本、我的电脑（屏幕还是一片漆黑）全都出现了。我看向自己的椅子，在柔软的扶手上还留有几点纯白。

我定定地坐了一阵子，从电脑前起身走向房间另一边。

我打开窗户，望向高楼之外的远方，还有那一片淡紫色的天空……

这篇文字让我想起一首诗：

从前慢——木心

记得早先少年时 
大家诚诚恳恳 
说一句 是一句 
　　 
清早上火车站 
长街黑暗无行人 
卖豆浆的小店冒着热气 
　　 
从前的日色变得慢 
车，马，邮件都慢 
一生只够爱一个人 
　　 
从前的锁也好看 
钥匙精美有样子 
你锁了 人家就懂了

我们的日子，还能不能再慢下来？