修自行车的那个人短文★★★★★
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By our gate there is a man with a small table who mends bikes, and he has been there longer than I have lived here.
我们大门边有个摆小桌子修自行车的人，他在那儿待的年头比我住在这儿还长。
He has no sign. People tell other people, and in the morning he has four or five wheels to fix.
他没有招牌。人告诉人，一早上他就轮着四五个轮子要修。
Once I asked why he never opened a real shop. He said a shop needs rent, and rent needs speed, and speed makes a man work too fast.
有一次我问他怎么不开个正经店面。他说开店要房租，房租就催你快，一快，人就修得太快。
Here he can look at one bike for twenty minutes and send a person away again if a part is not worth mending.
在这儿他可以盯着一辆车看二十分钟，也可以在一个件不值得修的时候让人把车推走。
He writes names in a book and takes no money until the bike has been ridden for a week.
他本子上记名字，车骑满一个礼拜之前不收钱。
I think we do not call a man like this important, because he has no sign and no page on the internet.
我想我们把这样的人看不在眼里，只因为他没有招牌、网上也没有他的一个页面。
He is the only person on my street who has never asked me what I do.
我们这条街上，只有他从没问过我是做什么的。