《纽约时报》：在被封锁的武汉，他运送的还有希望

武汉封城，大部分人只能困守在家中，等待疫情结束。家家闭塞之际，还有一些人却不得不比往常更加忙碌：奋战在一线的医务人员，守护着居民的基层工作者，还有那些维持着城市运转的外卖员们。

送菜、送药、送餐......外卖员们面对着极大的被感染的风险，马不停蹄地奔波在被封锁的城市里，维持着城市的运转，为这场与疫情的战斗作出了他们的贡献。 1月30日，一篇名为《一位武汉外卖员的自述》的文章引发了大众对这一群体的关注，作者就是一位名叫张赛的外卖骑手。他用平静但不平淡的文字，写出了普通人面对疫情时的感受，也记录下了最真实的武汉。

张赛 2月20日，张赛小哥登上了《纽约时报》，来看看他是如何在被封锁的武汉，运送着食物，也运送着希望：

The delivery driver did not want to go upstairs. 这位外卖骑手不想上楼。 The driver, Zhang Sai, hovered outside an apartment building in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak. He had been ordered not to take food to customers’ doors in order to minimize the risk of infection. 骑手张赛在位于冠状病毒疫情中心的中国中部城市武汉的一幢公寓楼外踌躇。为了减少感染的风险，他得到的命令是不得将食物送到顾客的家门口。 But the woman on the phone was pleading, he recalled. The food was for her mother, who couldn’t go down to meet him. 但是，他回忆说，电话中的女士恳求他上去。食物是给她母亲买的，母亲无法下楼见他。 Mr. Zhang relented. He would drop off the order and sprint away. As he placed the bag on the floor, Mr. Zhang said, the door opened. Startled, he rushed away. Without thinking, he said, jabbed the elevator button with his finger, touching a surface he feared could transmit the virus. 张赛心软了。他想放下东西然后马上离开。张赛说，当他把袋子放在地板上时，门开了。他吓了一跳，冲了出去。他说，他不假思索地用手指戳了电梯按钮，触碰到了他担心会传播病毒的表面。 That was how Mr. Zhang, 32, found himself speeding back to his delivery station with one finger held aloft, careful not to touch the rest of his hand — a quarantine in miniature. 就这样， 32岁的张赛高高举着一根手指，回到他的送货站，小心翼翼地避免碰到手的其他部分——就像一个小型隔离现场。 “I was very scared,” he recalled in a telephone interview. “Because I ride a scooter, I felt the finger was like a flag.” “所以我很怕， ”他在电话采访中回忆道。 “因为我骑的是电动车，我感觉那一根手指头就像一面旗子一样。 ”

For many in China, delivery drivers like Mr. Zhang are the only connection to the outside world. Once a ubiquitous but invisible presence on the streets of nearly every Chinese city, the drivers are now being heralded as heroes. 对于许多中国人来说，像张赛这样的送货骑手是他们与外界唯一的联系。这些骑手曾经是中国几乎每个城市的街道上无处不见却被人忽视的存在，现在被当作英雄来赞颂。 Throughout China, at least 760 million people — almost a tenth of the world’s population — face some form of residential lockdown. The restrictions are particularly strict in Wuhan, where government efforts to contain the virus have barricaded most of the 11 million residents in their homes. 在整个中国，至少有7.6亿人——几乎是世界人口的十分之一——面临着某种形式的居住封锁。这种限制在武汉尤其严格，政府为遏制该病毒， 1100万居民中的大多数被关在家里。 Each household can send someone out for necessities just once every three days. Many residents do not venture outside at all, for fear of infection. Of the more than 2,200 deaths and 75,000 infections linked to the new virus, the majority have been in Wuhan. 每个家庭每三天可以派一个人外出一次购买生活必需品。由于担心感染，许多居民根本不敢冒险外出。与新病毒有关的2100多例死亡和近7.5万例感染中的大多数发生在武汉。 But people still have to eat — which is why Mr. Zhang and legions of delivery drivers find themselves on the street each day. As Wuhan and the rest of the China hunkers down, they have become the country’s vital arteries, keeping fresh meat, vegetables and other supplies flowing to those who need them. 但是人们还是得吃饭——这就是为什么张赛和大批送货骑手每天都在街上忙碌的原因。随着武汉和中国其他地区的人们困守家中，他们已经变成了这个国家的重要动脉，让新鲜的肉、蔬菜和其他物资流向需要的人。