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我到这里以前曾经在德国的一家药店里度过了一个漫长的冬
季。事实上这里的药店也很舒适。在我们的药店里有三个巨
大独立的、上面带柜台的玻璃展柜。我第一天在药店里站柜
台的时候，我看到每个展柜旁都站着的一个人，但他们的姿
势都很奇怪。 他们的腿在展柜前面，但身体的其它部分深深
地弯下去，他们的整个上半身大大咧咧地趴在展柜上。我想
他们也许真的是很累，需要在所有这些可爱的、做装饰的毛
绒玩具熊中间休息。对在这里工作的人来说，这种行为显然
是非常正常的。我等了一会儿才凑近了看他们。当然我是看
不到他们的脸的，因为多数人的头都藏在典型柏林式的、像
毯子一样的围巾里了。开始我以为他们可能视力不好又丢了
眼镜，而试着凑近柜台来隔着玻璃读不同药品上的说明，并
对比他们自己可能患的病。然而后来我就意识到了他们只是
在一边休息，一边跟药剂师慢慢地讲自己的公寓等等事情，
可能仅仅为了在这个温暖漂亮的房间里多待一会儿，用我全
部的光来掩盖他们典型的坏情绪和无精打采。
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Strau’s posters were translated into Chinese. In the first two days, 400 posters were collected by Shanghai library-goers
Before I came here I used be staying for a long winter season
at a pharmacy in Germany. Actually pharmacies are very comfy
places here too. Inside our pharmacy are three big individual
vitrines with the counter on it. When I stood my first day in
the pharmacy I saw on each vitrine one person in a strange
position. Their legs stood normally in front of the vitrine, but
the rest of the body was deeply bowed down, the whole
upper part of their bodies was shamelessly lying on the
vitrine. Maybe they were really very tired I believed and
needed rest between all the typical sweet decorative stuffed
bears next to them. To the people working here it obviously
seemed to be very normal behaviour. I waited for a while until
I looked closer. I could of course not see their faces because
most of the heads were hidden under blanket-like scarves in
the usual Berlin fashion. First I thought that they would be
maybe bad sighted and have lost their glasses and tried to look
closely to read the descriptions on the different medicines
under the glass surface and compare them with their own
possible sicknesses. But then I realized they just rested and
slowly talked to the pharmacists about their apartments and
other things, probably just in order to prolong their stay in the
beautiful and warm room with all my light to cover their
typical dark mood and low energy attitude.
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