...但是由于我有时在咖啡馆呆了几个小时,我必须学会在白天小睡,否则就会死,而我已经学会了小睡。直到五个月前,“要么做某事,要么死”似乎一直是一个简单的选择。
(...but with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.)