In Bag of Bones, for instance, main character Mike Noonan is a fortyish writer who, as the book opens, has just lost his wife to a brain aneurysm.

比如《尸骨袋》中主要人物麦克·诺南四十多家，小说开始时候，他妻刚刚因为脑动脉瘤病逝。

He was a sturdy, fortyish man in a white T-shirt who had turned off his lawn mower to shake my hand while a towheaded little boy zipped around behind him on a red tricycle.

他身材健壮四十多男人，穿着件白色T恤，关掉了他割草机和我握手，而拖着头小男孩骑着辆红色三轮车在他身后飞驰。