前两天我在跑步机上跑步时竟然岔气了，胸口的右下侧突然如针扎一样的疼，不过最后还是坚持完了
结果他破铁鞋无觅处，第二天在读Stephen King的Hearts in Atlantis时，一眼就瞄见这句话：
“He ran almost two full blocks before a stitch in his side forced him to first slow down, then stop.” (Page 274, Hearts in Atlantis)
我这一查字典才知道stitch有一条解释是：
“a sharp pain in the side of your stomach or chest, often caused by not breathing enough when running or laughing” (
我心中欢喜，就在书下脚空白处写了这句话：
“昨天跑步时就想这个词怎么说？他破铁鞋无觅处。”
欢喜过后拿起手机把这个问题发给几个朋友，都是英语高手。结果基本都没有回复或者就一个字：“晕。”最后终于捡到两条有建设性意义的。
Catherine的短信这么说：“一个单词的我不知道，不过可以直接说to feel a pain in the chest when breathing。”
Snow的短信这么说：“我不知道，cramp可以吗？俗语怎么说我就不知道了。”
先说Snow的cramp，嗯，cramp的确有这么个含义：
“a sudden painful tightening in a muscle, often after a lot of exercise, which limits movement”
但是这个主要是指肌肉的痉挛，我想这个和岔气还是有些差别的。
到了晚上，我闲着没事，决定把stitch告诉大家，就群发短信如下：
“我查遍了各种资料，终于找到了这个看似可以的stitch。”
我这么措词是害怕他们扁我，呵呵。
下面就引出了我和Catherine的短信战。这次对决其实让我和她都受了很多内伤，看了就知道了。
我：“我查遍了各种资料，终于找到了这个看似可以的stitch。”
C：“Amazing! You’ve been on this all day?”
我：“Not entirely, thanks to my delicate stomach that had rumbled twice to give me two breaks…”
C：“That’s incredibly amazing!”
我：“Actually, it was poco loco!”
C：“Sorry, you make me feel like an illiterate. What’s poco loco?”
我：“I’ve just learned it. Poco is a musical jargon that means slightly, and loco means mad in US slang. So doesn’t the loco combo of the loco buzzwords look poco loco?”
C：“Lovely!”
我：“Not really, they were hotsy-totsy!”
C：“And you are just trying to turn my mind topsy-turvy!”
我：“This is joie de vivre, isn’t this?”
C：“Keep working like this and you’ll be a mensch!”
我：“Oh, come on, my compadre, my muchacha! I’d like to be your caballero!”
C：“The muchacha walls on cuz she don understand no hieroglyph! Pity, tiger!”
我：“Si, si! Anyway, gracias! Adios, amigo! These messaging repartees can total Shakespeare himself!”
后记：
在交锋过程中，敌军和我军都动用了短距离，具有小范围爆炸性杀伤力的武器。最后把一些值得记忆的内容摘抄于下：
1、在Word中输入hotsy-totsy的时候，下面是划红线的。我点击右键，出现的备选是hoity-toity。我不认识，查：
“behaving as if you are better or more important than other people”
2、我没拦截住的导弹topsy-turvy。我不认识，一查才知道：
“(in a state of being) confused, not well organized or giving importance to unexpected things; upside down”
3、我再次没拦截住的鱼雷mensch：
A person having admirable characteristics, such as fortitude and firmness of purpose: “He radiates the kind of fundamental decency that has a name in Yiddish; he’s a mensch.”
在我刚刚写我这篇日记的时候，手机突然震动了两下——我有新短信，打开一看，Catherine的：
“OK, ciao!”
(Ciao: “used for saying ‘goodbye’ and less often ‘hello’”)
