公眾人物畢業(yè)演講(MP3+字幕)第64期:金墉美國東北大學(3)

Once when he was eating his contraband ramen

有一次 他正在無照小攤旁邊吃面

next to the vendor, police started chasing the vendors and all the customers

警察來了 開始驅(qū)趕小攤販和顧客

But my father told me

但我的父親告訴我

that as he was running, he kept eating his noodles

他一邊跑一邊還在吃他的面

because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford any more

因為他知道自己買不起另一碗面了

My mother was born in China near Shanghai

我的母親出生在中國上海附近

among a small community of Korean expatriates

一個韓國僑民居住的小社區(qū)

After returning to Korea, on a day she will never forget

回到韓國后 有一天 她永遠都不會忘記

my grandmother went outside to hang the laundry and she never saw here again

我的外祖母出去晾衣服就再也沒有回來

she was probably either taken or killed by North Korean soldiers

她可能是被北朝鮮士兵綁架或殺害了

With the war closing in around her

隨著戰(zhàn)爭的臨近

at the age of 15, my mother became a refugee

我的母親在15歲時成了難民

and literally walked, with her younger brother on her back

為了躲避戰(zhàn)火 她背著她弟弟

for 200 miles to escape the fighting

徒步走了200英里

Luckily, she was able to resume her schooling in a tent in the southern city of Masan

幸運的是 她在南部馬山市的一頂帳篷里得以繼續(xù)學業(yè)

She was an excellent student and with great good luck

她是一個好學生 非常幸運地

she received a scholarship from a secret women's society in the United States

獲得了美國一個秘密婦女學會提供的獎學金

and enrolled as a freshman at Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee

進入田納西州納什維爾的斯卡里特學院

Through almost unthinkably divergent and unlikely paths

通過幾乎是無法想象的完全不同和不可能的路徑

my parents ended up meeting in New York City at a Christmas party

我的父母最終在紐約市的一次圣誕聚會上邂逅相遇

that gathered together the few hundred Korean students

那次圣誕聚會聚集了幾百名當時居住

who were living in the United States at that time

在美國的韓國學生