时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:公众人物毕业演讲


英语课

   They fell in love, married


  他们坠入爱河 缔结良缘
  my older brother was born in New York City
  在纽约市生下我哥哥
  and then returned to Korea
  然后回到韩国
  I was born in Seoul and when I was five
  我出生在首尔 在我五岁时
  my family moved back to the United States
  我们举家搬回到美国
  and we eventually settled in Muscatine, Iowa
  我们最终定居在爱荷华州的马斯卡廷
  My father opened his dental practice
  我的父亲开了自己的牙科诊所
  and my mother set to work on her PhD in philosophy at the University of Iowa
  我的母亲在爱荷华大学研修哲学博士学位
  In the late 60's, influenced by my mother's passion for social justice
  在60年代末 受我母亲热衷于社会公正的影响
  we watched the civil rights and anti-war movements
  我们看到民权和反战运动
  unfold from our living room in Muscatine
  从马斯卡廷我们家的客厅展开
  We lived, as you can tell
  你们可以想象 我们有着
  the classic All-American, Korean family grows up in a small town in Iowa story
  在爱荷华州一个小镇的经典的韩裔美籍家庭中成长的经历
  We fully embraced our lives in the heartland of this great country
  我们完全接受了在这个伟大国家中心地带的生活
  As you might imagine
  正如你们可以想象
  there weren't a lot of Asians in Iowa in the 60's and 70's
  在60年代和70年代 爱荷华州的亚洲人并不多
  but happily, one of the most popular shows at that time was Kung Fu
  但令人高兴的是 当时最受欢迎的一个节目是《功夫》
  the story of a former Shaolin priest
  故事讲的是一个少林和尚
  half-American, half-Chinese
  一半美国血统 一半中国血统
  who comes to the United States to find his American father
  到美国来寻找他的美国父亲
  So while we were outsiders in a profound sense in Iowa
  所以 虽然我们从深层意义上讲在爱荷华州属于外人
  at least the bully kids left us alone
  但至少爱欺负人的孩子不招惹我们
  because they thought all Asians knew Kung Fu
  因为他们认为所有的亚洲人都会功夫
  even my sister, and she was 3 when we moved to Iowa
  甚至我妹妹 她到爱荷华州的时候才只有三岁

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