Name: 【TED】塔妮亞．露娜 (Tania Luna): 一分錢如何讓我自覺像富翁 (Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire)
Uploaded: 2014-09-17T14:09:29.000Z
Duration: 5 min 32 s

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My father has just built the best outhouse

Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground,

屋子裡是有點怪味，地板上還有縫隙和破洞

但是從外面看來，這房子是珍珠白的塑膠材質

This makes me feel so proud, so important,

that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends

所以我自任為小小朋友圈裡的領導者

looking for flies captured in spider webs

發生車諾比(Chernobyl) 核電廠災變

and she snuck in every night to sit by my side.

每天晚上都溜進醫院坐在我身旁

Five years later, an unexpected silver lining.

Thanks to Chernobyl, we get asylum in the U.S.

感謝車諾比，讓我們得以前往美國的庇護所

I am six years old, and I don't cry when we leave home

我那時六歲，離開家鄉前來美國時

because I expect it to be a place filled with rare

因為我滿心期待要前往一個充滿美好事物的國度

and wonderful things like bananas and chocolate

Bazooka bubble gum with the little cartoon wrappers inside,

Bazooka that we'd get once a year in Ukraine

我們在烏克蘭一年只能吃到一次

and we'd have to chew one piece for an entire week.

所以一片口香糖就嚼一整個星期

in the floor of the homeless shelter that my family's staying in.

遊民收容所地板上撿到了一分錢

Only, we don't know that it's a homeless shelter.

不過我們當時並不知道那是遊民收容所

We think that it's a hotel, a hotel with lots of rats.

我們一直以為那是間旅館，有很多老鼠的旅館

So we find this penny kind of fossilized in the floor,

所以當我們發現那一分錢像個化石一樣躺在地上時

and we think that a very wealthy man must have left it there

我們都認為一定是個很有錢的人掉的

because regular people don't just lose money.

And I hold this penny in the palm of my hand,

I decide that I'm going to get my very own piece

And in that moment, I feel like a millionaire.

在那瞬間，我覺得自己就像個百萬富翁

About a year later, I get to feel that way again

一年後，我們在垃圾堆裡找到一大袋填充娃娃時

when we find a bag full of stuffed animals in the trash,

比這輩子有過的加起來都還要多了

And again, I get that feeling when we get a knock

還有一次，在我們布魯克林的公寓裡

on the door of our apartment in Brooklyn,

with a box of pizza that we didn't order.

So we take the pizza, our very first pizza,

我們收下了披薩，這輩子的第一個披薩

as the deliveryman stands there and stares at us from the doorway.

而我們就在他面前一片接一片不停的吃

And he tells us to pay, but we don't speak English.

他叫我們付錢，但我們當時還不懂英文

My mother comes out, and he asks her for money,

我母親從屋子裡走出來，外送員就叫她付錢

She walks 50 blocks to and from work every day

just to avoid spending money on bus fare.

and she turns red with rage when she realizes

have somehow gotten their hands on her pizza.

It doesn't hit me until years later just how little we had.

直到多年後我才明白當時我們有多窮困

On our 10 year anniversary of being in the U.S.,

we decided to celebrate by reserving a room

我們決定去一開始收留我們的旅館

at the hotel that we first stayed in when we got to the U.S.

The man at the front desk laughs, and he says,

"You can't reserve a room here. This is a homeless shelter."

「這邊的房間不能預約，這裡可是遊民收容所啊！」

My husband Brian was also homeless as a kid.

我老公布萊恩，他小時候也無家可歸

His family lost everything, and at age 11,

他得和父親一起住在汽車旅館裡

motels that would round up all of their food

汽車旅館會把他們的食物都拿走做為抵押品

and keep it hostage until they were able to pay the bill.

And one time, when he finally got his box

有次當他終於拿回他的家樂氏穀片時

of Frosted Flakes back, it was crawling with roaches.

He had this shoebox that he carried with him everywhere

two G.I. Joes painted to look like Spider-Man

兩個特種部隊 (G.I.Joe) 公仔塗裝得像蜘蛛人

and five Gobots. And this was his treasure.

還有五個機器戰神 (Gobots) 公仔，這是他的寶貝

讓他得以堅定的遠離毒品和幫派

Once upon a time, Scarlet was used as bait in dog fights.

for other dogs to attack so they'd get more aggressive before the fight.

And now, these days, she eats organic food

而最近這些日子，史嘉莉吃的是有機食物

and she sleeps on an orthopedic bed with her name on it,

but when we pour water for her in her bowl,

she still looks up and she wags her tail in gratitude.

Sometimes Brian and I walk through the park with Scarlett,

有時我和布萊恩帶著史嘉莉去公園散步

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