《美食祈禱和戀愛》Chapter 10 (19):開始旅程

A few weeks later, I am living in Italy.

數星期後，我住在意大利。

I have quit my job, paid off my divorce settlement and legal bills, given up my house, given up my apartment, put what belongings I had left into storage in my sister's place and packed up two suitcases. My year of traveling has commenced. And I can actually afford to do this because of a staggering personal miracle: in advance, my publisher has purchased the book I shall write about my travels. It all turned out, in other words, just as the Indonesian medicine man had predicted. I would lose all my money and it would be replaced immediately—or at least enough of it to buy me a year of life.

我已辭去工作，付清離婚財產和律師費，放棄我的房子，放棄我的公寓，把僅剩的家當存放在我姐姐家裏，收拾兩箱行李。我的旅行之年已經展開。而由於一個令人驚愕的個人奇蹟，我負擔得起這年的旅行經費：我的出版社事先買下我即將寫作的遊記。換句話說，結果如同印尼藥師所預料的一般。我將損失所有的錢，卻又立即被歸還給了我——或至少夠我過一年的生活。

So now I am a resident of Rome. The apartment I've found is a quiet studio in a historic building, located just a few narrow blocks from the Spanish Steps, draped beneath the graceful shadows of the elegant Borghese Gardens, right up the street from the Piazza del Popolo, where the ancient Romans used to race their chariots. Of course, this district doesn't quite have the sprawling grandeur of my old New York City neighborhood, which overlooked the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, but still . . .

It will do.

Eat, Pray, Love

因此我現在是羅馬的居民。我找到一棟歷史建築裏的小套房公寓，和西班牙階梯（Spanish Steps）相隔短短几條街，被博蓋塞花園（Borghese Gardens）典雅的陰影所籠罩，就在人民廣場（Piazza del Popolo）街上，古羅馬人從前在這廣場舉辦戰車比賽。當然，這地區不如從前紐約住家的附近，具有恣意擴展的氣派，可眺望林肯隧道，但是……這已足夠。