Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.

Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one’s precious resource, time, a fraction of one’s life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost.

除了无聊和身体上的不舒服之外，等待更难以形容的痛苦就是知道一个人最宝贵的资源——时间，其生命的一部分在被夺走，无可挽回地失去了。