Chapter 3 Phenomenon——3

It took every ounce of my concentration to make it down the icy brick driveway alive.

我用所有我的注意力去确定车道上面有没有冰块还存在。

活着通过那段冰封的车道耗尽了我身上每一盎司的注意力。

I almost lost my balance when I finally got to the truck,but I managed to cling to the side mirror and save myself.

当我最后上卡车的时候我几乎失去了平衡，但是我抓住了反光镜救了自己。

快要走到车前的时候，我差点失去平衡，但最后还是成功地抓住了后视镜，让自己得救了。

Clearly, today was going to be nightmarish.

显然，今天将会和噩梦一般。

Driving to school, I distracted myself from my fear of falling and my unwanted speculations about Edward Cullen by thinking about Mike and Eric, and the obvious difference in how teenage boys responded to me here.

开车到学校，我分散我自己的注意力，不去想恐惧和害怕和我不希望思索Edward Cullen，转而去想想mike和eric，在这里显然男生对我的回复很不同。

开车去学校的路上，我尽可能地把注意力从对车子失控的恐惧，还有对爱德华?卡伦的不必要的推测，转移到迈克和埃里克，还有这里的年轻男孩们对我的截然不同的态度上。

I was sure I looked exactly the same as I had in Phoenix.

和我在凤凰城见过的一样。

Maybe it was just that the boys back home had watched me pass slowly through all the awkward phases of adolescence and still thought of me that way.

可能这只是男生看见我缓慢的经过所有的尴尬青春期的阶段都是这样的。

也许是因为我家那边的男孩们亲眼目睹了我惨不忍睹的青春期的全过程，还在用老眼光来看我。

Perhaps it was because I was a novelty here, where novelties were few and far between.

可能只是因为我在这很新奇，就像稀有并且遥远的新奇纪念品一般。

Possibly my crippling clumsiness was seen as endearing rather than pathetic, casting me as a damsel in distress.

可能我的笨拙比可怜看起来更让人喜欢一些，铸造我就像一个少女陷入危机一般。

也可能是我跛子似的笨拙惹人怜爱而非怜悯，让我陷入了肥皂剧里的不幸少女的角色。

Whatever the reason, Mike's puppy dog behavior and Eric's apparent rivalry with him were disconcerting.

无论什么原因，mike这样可爱狗的表现和eric这样和他竞争的样子来看是令人担心的。

不管理由是什么，迈克宠物犬一样的举动，还有埃里克跟他针锋相对的表现，让我受宠若惊。

I wasn't sure if I didn't prefer being ignored.

我不确定我是否能更加无视他们。

我不知道自己是不是更情愿被无视。