A day later the sun would come closer to her and to the others on this side of the world, ---这句不懂。 先谢过指教!
This is excerpt from Yiyun Li’s novel “The Vagrants” – 这一天顾老师的女儿要以反革命罪被处决。
The day started before sunrise, on March 21, 1979, when Teacher Gu woke up and found his wife sobbing quietly into her blanket. A day of equality it was, or so it had occurred to Teacher Gu many times when he had pondered the date, the spring equinox, and again the thought came to him: Their daughter’s life would end on this day, when neither the sun nor its shadow reigned. 1979年3月21号,那天顾老师起了个大早,当他起床之际发现他妻子在被窝里无声地哭泣。是日正值春分,顾老师曾经无数次沉思这春分之日。那个想法再一次纷至沓来:他们女儿的生命将在那天嘎然而止,不管那天的太阳或其影子是否统治这个世界。。。