住在同一栋楼里的小镇

整座小镇的人都住在室内。把这个故事分享给那个总抱怨邻居的人。在阿拉斯加一片寒冷灰暗的海湾边，有一座叫惠蒂尔的小镇，镇上几乎所有人都住在同一栋楼里。

This whole town lives indoors. Send this to the person who complains about their neighbours. In Alaska, on a cold grey bay, there is a town called Whittier, and almost everyone in it lives in the same building.

这栋楼有十四层高，很久以前是为军队修建的。如今楼里有公寓、商店、邮局、警察局、小诊所，还有一座教堂。镇长、医生，还有卖牛奶给你的人，都住在彼此楼上楼下。下雪的时候，而这里雪下得很大，没有人需要出门。孩子们通过一条地下通道就能走到学校。

The building is fourteen floors high and was built for the army long ago. Now it holds flats, a shop, a post office, a police station, a small clinic and a church. The mayor, the doctor and the person who sells you milk all live upstairs from each other. When it snows, and it snows a great deal, nobody has to go outside at all. The children reach the school through a tunnel under the ground.

进入这座小镇的方式更加奇特。车辆要经过一条穿山而凿的狭窄隧道，而这条隧道还要和火车共用，所有人必须轮流通行。到了夜里隧道会关闭，没有人能开车进出。小镇就这样静静地待在原地，温暖而明亮，一栋高楼矗立在雪中，四周环绕着群山。

Getting into the town is stranger still. Cars come in through one narrow tunnel cut straight through a mountain, and that tunnel is shared with trains, so everybody takes turns. At night it closes and nobody drives in or out. The town simply stays where it is, warm and lit, one tall building standing in the snow with mountains all around it.