All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.
我们所有人都读过令人兴奋的故事,其中英雄只有有限和具体的时间可以活。有时是一年,有时是二十四小时。但我们总是对发现这个注定要死的人如何度过他的最后几天或最后几个小时感兴趣。当然,我说的是有选择的自由人,而不是被定罪的罪犯,他们的活动范围是严格限定的。