Two hours from 17:00 to 19:00h on the longest day of the year in the life of a young Parisienne is presented. Florence Victoire, who is better known by her stage name Cléo Victoire (as in Cleopatra), is a singer with three hit singles to her name, and as such some renown. Two days ago, she went in for some tests for abdominal issues to see if it is cancer. She will be getting the results today at 18:30h. She is certain that it will be a terminal cancer diagnosis, her mind fixated on that outcome and what it actually means. This belief affects how she approaches the day, from her encounters with friends and acquaintances to what she observes in total strangers around her. It could be as simple as how she views the lyrics to new songs presented to her from her songwriting team, to her feelings about a conversation she overhears in a café between a couple having relationship problems, to the typical sweet nothings spoken to her from her lover, José. There are certain things that do temporarily take her mind off of waiting for the test results, but something will always bring her back to that as the issue of her day. It isn’t until just before she is ready to call the doctor that she may get a different perspective of the day and thus her life in a chance meeting with a stranger named Antoine, a French soldier at the very end of a three week leave from the Algerian War.
参考翻译：
在年轻巴黎人一生中最长的一天，从17:00到19:00有两个小时。弗洛伦斯·维克托尔（Florence Victoire）以艺名Cléo Victoire（如《埃及艳后》）而闻名，她是一名歌手，有三首热门单曲以她的名字命名，因此也有一些名气。两天前，她做了一些腹部检查，看看是否是癌症。她将在今天18:30得到结果。她确信这将是一个晚期癌症诊断，她的注意力集中在结果和它的实际含义上。这种信念影响着她对待一天的方式，从她与朋友和熟人的相遇，到她对周围陌生人的观察。这可能很简单，比如她如何看待写歌团队给她的新歌的歌词，如何看待她在咖啡馆无意中听到的一对夫妻之间有感情问题的对话，如何看待她的爱人何塞对她的典型甜言蜜语。有些事情确实会让她暂时忘记等待测试结果，但总有一些事情会让她回到今天的问题上来。直到她准备好给医生打电话之前，她可能会对这一天有一个不同的看法，从而有机会与一个名叫安托万的陌生人见面，安托万是一名法国士兵，在阿尔及利亚战争三周假期即将结束时。
重点词汇释义
stage name艺名
Cleopatra克利奥佩特拉（69—30B．C．，古埃及最后女王，在位期间51—49B．C．，48—30B．C ．）; comprehensive language for elegant operating system and translator design 一流操作系统与翻译构思的综合性语言
as such像这样的; 严格来说，真正意义上; 本身
renown名声; 声望; 名誉
fixated异常依恋，固恋; 固定，注视; fixate的过去分词和过去式
in total总计; 总共
