2010年4月的一天，我开车在路上，忽然发现刹车不工作，踩到底了才有一点儿作用。我小心翼翼地把车开到了我习惯去的汽车维修店，去换机油。我把车钥匙交给他们时，却把刹车失灵的事忘记了。

One day in April 2010, I was driving on the road, suddenly noticed that the brakes were not working, and it only had a little effect when I stepped to the end. I carefully drove the car to the auto repair shop I used to go to change the oil. When I handed them the car key, I forgot about the brake failure.

车维修完了，我去取钥匙时，本来那个结账的服务员是个欧洲的白人小姑娘，她突然被召唤进去了，换了个说汉语的华裔人来为我结账。他拿着我的钥匙，四处看了看，伸头到我脸的附近，用汉语小声说： “卢先生，你的车闸我们已经替你紧过了，你的车现在安全了。” 我答应着，没在意，但当我走到门口时，全身出汗了。人人都知道：车闸出事有两种可能的原因，一是来自事故，二是人为的。我的车近几个月都没事故，是有人在故意害我！

When I went to get the keys after the car was repaired, the waiter who was originally checking out was a little white girl from Europe, but she was suddenly summoned in and replaced with a Chinese-speaking Chinese to check out for me. He took my key, looked around, reached near my face, and whispered in Chinese: “Mr. Lu, we have tightened your brakes for you, and your car is safe now.” I answered without attention, but when I walked to the door, I was sweating all over. Everyone knows that there are two possible reasons for a brake accident, one is from an accident and the other is man-made. My car hasn't had an accident in recent months, someone is deliberately harming me!

在回家的路上，我一直想谁在害我？一、两个小时内，几次出汗。随后，我的生活和工作中就出现了奇奇怪怪的事（注1）。

On the way home, I kept thinking who was harming me? Sweating several times in one or two hours. Then strange things happened in my life and work (Annotation 1).

注9.8-1，我受到了严重的惊吓，身心处于高度的恐惧和怀疑之中；肾上腺激素等分泌维持着这种身心状态，多星期时间不能被降下来，致使我的心理容纳空间变小了，思想多走入极端。

Annotation 9.8-1, I was severely frightened, physically, and mentally in a high state of fear and doubt; adrenal hormones etc. secretions maintained this bodily and mentally drowsy state, could not be lowered for weeks, resulting in a smaller space for my mental behaviors, thinks were rampaging extremely.

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