Yet their summers more likely involve city recreation centers , steamy blacktop , or a splash in a public pool or a fire hydrant turned fountain .
他们的童年是城市娱乐中心,是冒着热气的柏油路,是公共泳池中溅起的水花,是已经变成喷泉的消防龙头。
You decide you will wait until ten cars have rushed past on the blacktop road , and if your mother hasn 't arrived by then you will get up and walk back to the house .