Preface

　PREFACE

    I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences; it wasn't something you ever really got usedto.

　　It seemed oddly inevitable¹, though, facing death again. Like I really was marked for disaster. I'descaped time and time again, but it kept coming back for me.

　　Still, this time was so different from the others.

　　You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactionswere geared toward those kinds of killers—the monsters, the enemies.

　　When you loved the one who was killing² you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could youfight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, howcould you not give it?

　　If it was someone you truly loved?

1 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。