A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear， so I wouldn‘t have to live with this lie anymore。 But no one woke up and in the silence that followed， I understood the nature of my new curse： I was going to

get away with

it。

I thought about Hassan’s dream， the one about us swimming in the lake。 There is no monster， he‘d said， just water。 Except he’d been wrong about that。 There was a monster in the lake。 It had grabbed Hassan by the ankles， dragged him to the murky bottom。 I was that monster。

That was the night I became an insomniac。

有一部分的我渴望有人醒來聽我訴說，以便我可以不再揹負著這個謊言度日。但沒有人醒來，在隨後而來的寂靜中，我明白這是個下在我身上的咒語，終此一生，我將揹負著這個謊言。

我想起哈桑的夢，那個我們在湖裡游泳的夢。那兒沒有鬼怪。他說，只有湖水。但是他錯了。湖裡有鬼怪，它抓住哈桑的腳踝，將他拉進暗無天日的湖底。我就是那個鬼怪。

自從那夜起，我得了失眠症。

I was going to

get away with

it。

get away with

：

意思是（做壞事而） 未受懲罰； （做冒險之事而） 未遭遇不測。

例如：The criminals know how to play the system and get away with it

（這些罪犯知道如何鑽體制的空子以逃脫懲罰。）

另有一個與其相似的片語：

get away from

，意思是擺脫； 離開； 從…逃掉。from後接表示地點的名詞，或者表示擺脫物件的名詞。

例如：His doctors conferred by telephone and agreed that he must get away from his family for a time。

（診治他的幾位醫生在電話裡討論了一番，一致認為他必須離開家人一段時間。）

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