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Last summer I joined a dig at an old town.去年夏天，我参加了一个老城的发掘。 That was my first taste of real archaeology.那是我第一次真正接触「考古」。 The team was multinational, and they worked simultaneously on three sides of one field.那支队伍是「跨国公司的」，他们在一块地的三面工作。 Their leader had spent a lifetime in that dry soil.他们的领队在那片干土里度过了一「终生」。

She could sophisticate a plain question into a lesson about people.她能把一个普通的问题「使…变得复杂」，变成一堂关于人的课。 On day one she handed me a long list of terminology.第一天她递给我一长串「术语」。 A vowel sound, she said, can turn a common word into a place.她说，一个「元音」就能把一个普通的词变成一个地名。

The dig held a differential of ages, and her talk held our equilibrium under the sun.发掘队里年龄「差别」很大，她的谈话让我们在烈日下保持「平衡」。 I cut a lateral line across it.我在圆上切出一条「侧面的」线。 A hormone in my body, it seemed, kept me moving under that hard sun.看来，我体内的一种「激素」，就是让我在那样的烈日下继续走动的原因。

I worked there for weeks, yet the old wall showed nothing.我在那里干了好几个星期，那堵旧墙却一直没有显出什么。 By the end I could read it and tell where a door once stood.到最后，我已经能读懂它，说出当年一扇门在哪里。 The work changed my idea of the past and of my own small place.这项工作改变了我对过去的看法，也改变了我对自己渺小位置的认识。 That summer gave me a new way to look at a stone.那个夏天给了我一种全新的方式去看一块石头。