Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term “downshifting” has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality.

奇怪是，大约两年半时间我写完两部小说后，我这个被美国人称为“放慢生”试验，却使我老掉牙借口成现实。

Not quite my tempo. It's all good.

不是我要 没关系。

Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms.

我们工厂里轰鸣着机器人生产线。

Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.

穿透股股冷流，成富有琴声般潮水。

They are therefore seen as very casual people who enjoy a slower pace of life.

所以他们被看作是非常随意、享受慢生人。

Global warming disrupts the natural rhythm of forest fires.

全球暖会破坏森林火灾自然。

Well, your contraption has changed my heartbeat. It changed my rhythm. I can't play.

而你们设备我心跳。它我，我不能拉琴。

So tonight, have one last drink, maybe at T's, dance to your own beat or to the beat of Ninja Turtle Backpack Guy, and tomorrow, get to work.

因此，今晚，让我们最后聚杯，也许是在T's酒吧里，按照自己或忍者神龟跳舞。明天，投入新工作。

People enjoyed the tranquility of a slower pace of life.

人们享受着慢生带来宁静。

Well, I still can't adjust to the fast pace of city life.

我还是没法适应这里快生。

Those cats from Il Tempo have been spying on me!

《》杂志那些家伙在监视我！

The U. K. and India like to march to their own drum.

英国和印度则喜欢各按自己行事。

Its rhythmic beauty sometimes moves me to tears.

有时我被其美丽感动至流泪。

Several hundred feet above, the great shark senses a sudden change in the sea's rhythm, subtle at first, yet unmistakable.

几百英尺上方，大鲨鱼感受到海中突，开始时很微妙，但有确凿无疑。

Spanish, however, is a syllable-timed language where each syllable is given more equal timing.

西班牙语则是以音为基础，每个音时间分配比较均等。

I had to compete six times, and I kind of liken it to a marathon, but the pace of a hundred meter dash, because every day is the Olympics.

我需要参加六场比赛，我把它比作一场马拉松，但却是以百米冲刺在跑，因为在奥运会上，每一天都至关重要。

Just south of Yoyogi Park is Shibuya, home to one of the busiest pedestrian crossings in the world. Every area of Tokyo dances to it's own distinctive beat, in Shubuya the beat, is shopping.

在代代木公园南方涩谷，拥有全世界最繁忙人行道。东京每个区域都有自己独特，对涩谷来说，逛街就是它。

Then let Havana's magical rhythms carry you into the night.

然后让哈瓦那神奇带你进入黑夜。

This is about as fast-paced a history book as I've ever read.

这是我读过最快历史书。

To make a public declaration of their love and commitment, a man and woman jumped over a broom into matrimony, to the beat of drums.

为向世人宣布他们爱情和婚约，一对黑人男女和着鼓声，一起跳过一把扫帚。