(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
While travelling alone, I wasn't sure what my purpose was. I spent a lot of time in Airbnbs doing my freelance work. I had a research gig combing through recent media portrayals of China in the US to create a summary for an academic institution. I trawled through white papers describing Chinese student spies and ominous articles predicting a second cold war – abstract, alarming concepts that seemed far removed from the gentle patter of my family WeChat. The articles I read seemed to have no connection to the ordinary lives going on around me.
独自旅行时我不确定自己的目的是什么
In the evenings I stayed in my room and read manga. I had hardly anyone to see. Most of the time I was on my own.
晚上我呆在房间里看漫画,我找不到什么人陪我,大部分时间里我都是一个人
A year after my interviews, I did see my yeye one more time. Over Christmas 2019, I found myself in China again. This time, my parents, brother, and I were paying a quick family visit before returning to the US. yeye's dementia was worse. I asked after his novels, but still didn't get my hands on any. My nainai ate at a new hotpot restaurant with us in Hefei. In Shanghai, I dyed my hair blue. Three months after we returned home, the US locked down for the pandemic.
距离那次采访一年后,我又一次看到了爷爷
"还是想哭," my father said in the WeChat group after my grandfather's memorial was over. ("Still want to cry.")
“还是想哭,”爷爷的追悼会结束后父亲在微信群里说
Also: "这是人生." ("This is human life.")
还有:“这就是人生
In a eulogy written after my grandfather's death, my aunt wrote: "Father, you always wished for one of us to become a great writer. Your granddaughter is at this moment working towards that goal." When I read it, my first reaction was resentment, that they would use my dreams of being a writer to appease my grandfather's spirit. That after his death, the pressure on me would only increase. The pressure to honour his memory, and my grandmother's.
在我爷爷去世后写的悼词中,姑姑写道:“父亲,你一直希望我们中有一个能成为伟大的作家
词语解释
1.freelance 自由职业(者)的
He derives his income from freelance work.
他以自由职业获取收入
2.appease 使平息
In order to appease the turbulent tribues, the chiefs propagated superstition to alter the member’s ideology and consolidate their reign.
为了安抚战乱的部落,部落首领通过宣传迷信来转变部落成员的思想形态并巩固他们的统治
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