わからない個所を教えてください。
I look up at the sky again. It’s not the time of year for the shooting stars yet; a few months must pass before the Perseids wash through the Earth’s orbit and burn briefly through the high atmosphere. Jamie tells me all about them. We watch them together.（前回の終わりの部分です）
‘There’s one – over there.’
I turn my head a fraction and catch the last dying trace of light as the star burns out. ‘That’s fourteen,’ I say.
‘They’re great, aren’t they?’
‘Yeah.’
‘People say you should wish when you see one.’
‘We should do that.’
‘OK. On the next one.’
‘We could have had fourteen wishes by now,’ I say.
‘Do you believe in all that?’
‘All what?’
‘Wishes and stuff.’
I think about it. ‘I don’t think so,’ I say at last.
‘Me neither.’ I can hear the grin in his voice as he adds, ‘But let’s do it anyway.’
We wait until the next star cuts across the sky.
‘What did you wish for?’ I ask.
‘It’s a secret,’ he says. ‘You have to keep them a secret if you want them to come true.’ ‘Oh.’
‘They aren’t really stars, you know,’ he says. He speaks quietly, almost dreamily. ‘They’re pieces of rock. Meteors. They drift through space, and once a year this big sort of cloud of them – it’s called a swarm – comes. They go round the sun, you see, like us, only we only catch up with them once a year. And then they burn up.’
‘Why do they burn up?’
‘Because of the air.’
‘Rocks don’t burn,’ I say.
‘Yes they do. Look at volcanoes. That’s rock.’
‘Oh, yeah,’ I say. He’s right. ‘Why does the air make them burn?’
‘There’s another.’
‘I see it. Sixteen.’
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主人公のAlexはartistで、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに帰ってきています。
Alexと幼なじみのJamieが話しているシーンです。（子供の頃の回想シーン？）
‘Do you believe in all that?’
‘All what?’
‘Wishes and stuff.’
このセリフの中のstuffは何を意味しているのでしょうか？漠然としたもの？？
They drift through space, and once a year this big sort of cloud of them – it’s called a swarm – comes. They go round the sun, you see, like us, only we only catch up with them once a year.この英文のonly we only catch up with them once a year.の個所がよくわからないのですが、
私たちだけが一年に一度それらに追いつくだけです？onlyの意味するところがよくわかりません。
教えてください。お願いします。
