Or the eerie tension of a looming thunderstorm.

或對於暴風雨將至的奇異而不安的緊繃感

Or a spark of eye contact that can leave you blinded for days.

或讓你連日盲目的眼神火花

Or the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

或理解到你生命中隨機的過客其實過著和你相同鮮明且複雜的人生的體悟

No word for the wistful foreboding of the first sign of autumn.

或秋之將至的跡象時的惆悵預感

Or the instinctive tendency to see someone as you knew them in their youth.

或看到某人時你覺得你在年輕時認識他的內在感受

No word for the moment you began to fear that your life would follow a sequence of predictable milestones.

沒有一個字能描述當你開始害怕你的人生事實上遵循著連串可以預測的里程碑

Or the fear that it might never happen that way.

或害怕那些里程碑可能永遠不會發生

No word for the suspicion that you are utterly unique.

沒有一個字能形容當你懷疑自己完全是獨特時的感覺

For the suspicion that you’re utterly not.

形容懷疑自己完全不是獨特的感覺

For the fear that there is no frontier left.

形容當你發現已經沒有任何未開拓的經驗的恐懼

That you’ve already felt everything you’re ever going to feel.

一種你已經經歷了所有你能感受的事物的感覺

My name is John Koenig.

我是John Koenig

And this is the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,

這是不具名的悲傷辭典

a new web series on the Test Tube network.

一個Test Tube network上的新網路節目

Our mission is to fill all the holes left in the language, and give them each a name.

我的職責是填滿那語言中缺漏的洞，給它們一個名字

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

不具名的悲傷辭典

For lack of a better world.

為填滿文字的匱乏而生