However, when the next-door neighbors get their flag out, fill their garden with pennants and lanterns and invite friends in to chat and drink, her pain begins to surface again: although the man in that family only works as a foreman in a factory, they can still have this kind of trouble-free life. How heaven smiles on the people of this peaceful and uneventful land!
當隔院鄰家昇起大旗，掛了滿院子紅底白十字燈籠，正邀朋引伴，喝酒烤腸子，談天說笑以示慶祝，她的傷懷又一湧而出：「那家的男人不過在工廠做個工頭，就可以過這麼無憂無慮的生活了，這太平無事的國家的國民是多麼得天獨厚！」