Name: 【TED】Tan Le: 我的移民故事 (Tan Le: My immigration story)
Uploaded: 2013-04-21T06:20:09.000Z
Duration: 12 min 17 s

about the bonds of women over three generations,

說完聯結三個世代的女人的故事

about how the astonishing strength of those bonds

bonds that took hold in the life of that small girl

那樣的緊密關係影響了這位小女孩

that small girl now living in San Francisco

It is a jigsaw puzzle still being put together.

Let me tell you about some of the pieces.

Imagine him as the communists enter Saigon,

想像他以共產黨員的身分進入西貢

那就是他的生命至今完全沒有意義。

Words, for so long his friends, now mocked him.

文字，曾是他的朋友，現在卻嘲笑他。

But our lives are much more than our memories.

My grandmother never let me forget his life.

我的祖母不讓我忘記我祖父的事

My duty was not to allow it to have been in vain,

我的責任是不讓祖父的生命白白逝去

For her, life had distilled itself into one task:

對她來說，生命擁有一個任務：

這對當時的她而言是不可思議的

So after a four-year saga that defies fiction,

經過四年，和小說裡的冒險情節不同的是，

my mother carried a small bottle of poison.

If we were captured, first my sister and I,

如果我們被抓住，先是讓我妹妹和我喝毒藥

我最初的回憶是從那船上開始的

I don't remember the pirates who came many times,

我不記得那些來了很多次的海盜

But I do remember the lights on the oil rig

and the young man who collapsed and died,

在那之後，沒有任何一個蘋果吃起來像當時一樣。

is about four women across three generations

是關於四位跨越了三個世代的女人

whose demographic is layers of immigrants.

和那些安定的中產階級們所住的郊區不同，

there was no sense of entitlement in Footscray.

The smells from shop doors were from the rest of the world.

商店裡的味道都是從世界的其他角落來的。

不知怎麼辦到的，但她還是找到時間學習英文

and extra tuition in English and mathematics

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【TED】Tan Le: 我的移民故事 (Tan Le: My immigration story)