Farid Karimi, 34

Before the sun clears the wall, a white sedan is already coughing at my gate. I put my palm on the bonnet and listen: a valve, not the pump. The owner argues with me for a while. I let him. When I take the cover off, he goes quiet. I was twelve the first time I could name that sound.译太阳还没翻过墙，一辆白色轿车就在门口咳起来。我把手掌按在引擎盖上听：是气门，不是油泵。车主跟我争了几句，我没接话。掀开盖子以后他自己不说了。十二岁那年，我第一次能叫出这种声音的名字。

陈远航Alban MousaviNaledi Morake

The kettle has lost its lid and sits on a nail by the door. Third glass of green tea before nine. My father used to say a man who drinks too much tea works slow, and then he drank nine glasses a day. I hold mine with both hands, because of the burn on my thumb and because the mornings are cold.译水壶早就没了盖子，挂在门边一颗钉子上。九点之前我已经喝到第三杯绿茶。父亲常说茶喝多了手慢，然后他一天喝九杯。我端杯子总是两只手，一是拇指上有旧烫伤，二是早晨确实冷。

Nusrat JahanFranziska GruberLuc BelangerJoana Manuel

Cold came early this year. The old radio sits on the shelf above the vice and finds one station only if I stand still. This morning I wore the grey hoodie under my jacket and heard a song my father used to hum badly. Static took the rest of it.译今年冷得早。旧收音机在台钳上方的架子上，只有我站着不动的时候才收得到一个台。今天早上我把灰色连帽卫衣穿在外套里面，听见一首父亲从前总哼跑调的歌。剩下的部分全是杂音。

Yassine BelkacemElias TorresBojan PetrovicIsabella MorettiSato Sakura

The grey vest is washed every night and is still grey-brown by noon. My mother sewed the left pocket deeper because I kept losing sockets. There is a burn hole over the ribs, small as a coin. I own better clothes. I wear this one when a car has to be ready by evening.译那件灰色背心每晚都洗，到中午还是灰褐色。左边口袋是母亲给我缝深的，因为我总把套筒弄丢。肋边有个硬币大小的烫洞。我有比它好的衣服，但哪台车要赶在傍晚前交出去，我就穿这件。

陈远航Maria Fernanda QuispePriya NairJordi Casals

A boy, maybe thirteen, has stood at the edge of the yard for a week without saying anything. Yesterday I held out a ten-millimetre wrench and told him to clean it. He took an hour. Today he came back and did it in ten minutes. That is how it starts, if it starts.译有个十三岁上下的男孩在院子边站了一个星期，一句话不说。昨天我把一把十毫米的扳手递过去，让他擦干净。他擦了一个钟头。今天他又来，十分钟就擦好了。事情要是能开始，就是这么开始的。

Alban Mousavi林雪梨Maria Fernanda QuispeJoana ManuelJordi Casals

The power went at seven. Forty minutes of nothing, then the generator took. Half the street stood outside in the dark, talking about nothing in particular. I carried out two chairs and a torch. Nobody left until the lights came back on.译七点停了电。空了四十分钟，发电机才接上。半条街的人站在黑里说话，什么正经事也没说。我搬出两把椅子和一只手电。灯亮之前，谁也没走。

林雪梨Markus WeberIsabella MorettiJordi Casals

There is a reading room behind the mosque with a shelf of engine manuals nobody opens. I spent the afternoon there copying a wiring diagram for a 1998 pickup into a notebook by hand. The keeper let me stay past closing. My tea went cold, which almost never happens.译清真寺后面有间阅览室，书架上摆着没人翻的发动机手册。我在那儿坐了一下午，把一台九八年皮卡的线路图一笔一笔抄进本子。看门的人让我过了闭馆时间还留着。茶凉了，这在我身上几乎不会发生。

Desislava PetkovaPaloi SrisukMbark Ould AhmedAisha RahmaniMariana Costa

My wife wraps my lunch in a white cotton cloth printed with small flowers. I used to leave it in the shop under a rag; now it comes home clean. It is the only soft thing in the yard. When a part falls on it she says nothing, and washes it again.译妻子用一块印着小花的白棉布给我包午饭。从前我总把它扔在铺子里，压在抹布底下；现在它每天干干净净地回家。院子里没有第二样这么软的东西。零件掉在上面，她也不说什么，只是再洗一遍。

Sophie van de VeldePaloi SrisukKim MinjunEnkh BatbayarAisha Rahmani