去年秋天,我正在美国东海岸旅行,陪同我们旅行的一位美国作家朋友的父亲不幸突然去世,我们就终止了旅行。按照我们中国的传统礼仪,我陪同作家朋友去纽约郊外的公墓给老人安葬。这是纽约郊外最大的一处公墓,已经埋葬了上万名的逝者,墓碑都是那种简易的一米多高的青石板,它们组成了一片壮观的碑林。我看到作家 Last fall, I was traveling on the east coast of the United States. Unfortunately, the father of an American writer friend who accompanied us on a trip died suddenly and we ended the journey. In accordance with our traditional Chinese manners, I accompany a writer and friend to the cemetery on the outskirts of New York to bury the elderly. This is the largest cemetery outside New York, has buried tens of thousands of dead, the tombstone is that kind of simple one meter high quartzite, which formed a magnificent forest of steles. I saw the writer