一位名叫塞尔玛的妇女陪伴丈夫驻扎在一个沙漠的陆军基地里。丈夫奉命到沙漠里去演习。她一个人留在陆军的小铁皮房子里。天气热得受不了———在仙人掌的阴影下也有５０多度。她没有人可以谈天———身边只有墨西哥人和印第安人，而他们不会说英语。她非常难过，于是就写信给 A woman named Selma was stationed in a desert army base with her husband. Her husband was ordered to exercise in the desert. She was alone in the Army’s small tin house. The weather can not stand hot - there are more than 50 degrees in the shadow of the cactus. There is no one she can talk about --- only Mexicans and Indians around, and they can not speak English. She was very sad, so she wrote