这是他们潮热的含义吗？但是他们不感到热。她的身体感到饱满，沉重，缓慢，人类，没有某种方式，只有一个重量就可以抬起，而没有其热情的生育和休息周期，她从未意识到自己依靠这么多的山顶和山谷。重量？那是她现在的事；一位过时的女性在死亡直到死亡？
(Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn't feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycles of fertility and rest, the crests and valleys she had never realized she counted on so much. Dead weight? Was that what she was now; an obsolete female biding its time until death?)
(Was this what they meant by hot flashes? But they didn't feel hot. Her body felt full and heavy and slow and human and absent somehow, just a weight to be carried forward without its enthusiastic cycles of fertility and rest, the crests and valleys she had never realized she counted on so much. Dead weight? Was that what she was now; an obsolete female biding its time until death?)
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在芭芭拉·金索尔（Barbara Kingsolver）的《浪子夏天》（Prostigal Summer）的摘录中，主角反思她的身体状态，将其比作'Hot Flashs'的感觉，但认识到她所经历的更多是关于普遍存在的沉重，而不是热量。这种感觉有助于她与曾经充满活力的生存的脱离感，因为她努力从活力到生活中的等待时期的过渡。
沉思使她思考失去身体自然的节奏，这表明她以前对生育和生命周期的经历为她带来了目标感。现在，她感觉像是一个陷入困境的负担，一个“过时的女性”，突出了衰老的主题和情感上的重量，而情感体重的感觉比以前少了。
