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My family came to America in 1985. No one spoke a word of English. In school, I was in an English as a Second Language class with other foreign-born children. My class was so over-crowed that it was impossible for the teacher to teach English properly. I dreaded going to school each morning for fear of not understanding what people were saying and for fear of being laughing at. At the time, my mother, Taiqi, worked part time in a Chinese restaurant from late afternoon until late in the night. It was her unfamiliarity with English language that forced her to work in a Chinese-speaking environment. Although her job exhausted her, my mother still woke up early in the morning to cook breakfast for my brother and me. Like a hen guarding her chicks, she never neglected us because of her fatigue.
1985年我們?nèi)襾淼矫绹?guó)。當(dāng)時(shí),沒有一個(gè)人能說一丁點(diǎn)英語。在學(xué)校里,我上的是作為第二語言的英語課,和我一起上課的還有其他一些在國(guó)外出生的孩子。我這個(gè)班級(jí)學(xué)生過分地多,以至于老師不可能教好英語。每天早上,我都怕去學(xué)校,害怕聽不懂別人說的話,害怕別人笑話我。 當(dāng)時(shí),我母親苔琪在一家中國(guó)餐館打零工,從傍晚時(shí)分一直干到深夜。正是由于她不懂英語,她不得不在說中文的環(huán)境里工作。盡管工作使她疲憊不堪,母親依然每天很早起床為我和我兄弟準(zhǔn)備早餐。她就像老母雞呵護(hù)自己的小雞那樣,從不因?yàn)樽约浩v而忽略了我們。 ——譯文來自: bx3214740