At 3.30am, Vello Senkel awoke to a knock on his door. Standing on his doorstep were his neighbours with an urgent request: “Do you have salt? We want to boil macaroni.”(站在他家门口的是他的邻居们，他们有一个紧急请求：“你有盐吗？我们想煮通心粉。”) He acquiesced(默许，勉强同意), but it turned out(结果证明，原来是) that salt wasn’t the only ingredient they were missing: “And do you also have macaroni?” His warm face, framed by jaw-length white hair, is at once charmed(着迷的，高兴的) and outraged(愤怒的，愤慨的) as he recounts the interaction while smoking a cigarette outside his apartment building the following morning.
凌晨3点30分，维洛·森克尔被敲门声惊醒。站在他家门口的是他的邻居们，他们有一个紧急请求：“你有盐吗？我们想煮通心粉。”他答应了，但结果盐并不是他们唯一缺少的配料：“那你还有通心粉吗？”第二天早上，他在公寓楼外抽烟时讲述这段经历，他那被齐下巴长的白发映衬的温暖脸庞，既显得着迷又带着愤慨。
Senkel, whose nickname is Velho (Finnish for wizard), is known for his proficiency(熟练，精通) in the kitchen. In his apartment, where he lives alongside 77 other formerly homeless people in a Helsinki suburb, he shows me his fully stocked(储备充足的，装满的) freezer. From his neatly organised fridge he pulls out the jars of pickled(腌制的，泡的) cabbage and shrimp salad he has prepared to take to a friend’s house for lunch later.
森克尔，绰号“维尔霍”（芬兰语中意为“巫师”），以厨艺精湛而闻名。在他的公寓里——他与其他77名曾经无家可归的人一起住在赫尔辛基郊区——他向我展示了他塞得满满的冰箱。他从整洁有序的冰箱里拿出几罐腌卷心菜和虾仁沙拉，这是他准备好稍后带去朋友家吃午饭的。
When Senkel, 67, moved here three and a half years ago, he had been living on the streets of the Finnish capital for 10 days after being evicted(被驱逐，被赶出) from his home. Before that there had been a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder(边缘型人格障碍), and a devastating(毁灭性的，令人震惊的) loss. His partner, whose photo is framed on his bookshelf, died after two years in a coma that started when her heart failed in her sleep.(他的伴侣——照片装裱在他的书架上——在昏迷两年后去世，昏迷始于她在睡梦中心脏衰竭。)
当67岁的森克尔三年半前搬到这里时，他因被赶出家门，已经在芬兰首都的街头生活了10天。在那之前，他被诊断出患有边缘型人格障碍，还遭受了一次毁灭性的失去。他的伴侣——照片装裱在他的书架上——在昏迷两年后去世，昏迷始于她在睡梦中心脏衰竭。