阿妈

On a sudden comes Mrs Mayoress and her two daughters to the house to see my old nurse and to see her school and the children.

市长太太和她的两个小姐忽然来看我阿妈，看看她的学堂和孩子们。

They dance on nice atmosphere. Wah this is music treatment. This is a time for youngster to give vent to one's full energy ,oldster recover one's youthful vigour and worker can reduce stress from dance too. After saw power of dance, we a bold to start new dance class.

三岁的小孩闻歌起舞，八十岁的老阿妈随着音乐的节奏扭动着四十多寸的水桶腰，当时的气氛很动人，它给了我新的观感，原来音乐与跳舞有这神奇的功效；能让年轻人发泄过多的精力，年长者返老还童和让上班族发泄累计在心里的不满，减压等等达到忘我的境界。

3Years old baby is dancing ,80years old Ah Ma is dancing with her tayar-waist too. They dance on nice atmosphere. Wah this is music treatment. This is a time for youngster to give vent to one's full energy ,oldster recover one's youthful vigour and worker can reduce stress from dance too.

三岁的小孩闻歌起舞，八十岁的老阿妈随着音乐的节奏扭动着四十多寸的水桶腰，当时的气氛很动人，它给了我新的观感，原来音乐与跳舞有这神奇的功效；能让年轻人发泄过多的精力，年长者返老还童和让上班族发泄累计在心里的不满，减压等等达到忘我的境界。

You dribble like a preschooler, and you shoot like my grandma.

想你运球像三岁小孩，而你投篮像我家阿妈。

As opposed to the uncorrupted purism of my grandmother, Mama's language was the loosest popular slang.

同我祖母不可动摇的纯粹主义截然相反，阿妈姨的语言是那种最不准确的时髦俚语。

Abies have four times more taste buds than we have as adults, so you shouldn't necessarily prepare your baby's food to suit your own tastes.

B的味蕾要比成人多4倍，所以，不要以阿妈的口味还给BB准备食物。

Francisca Simodosea-----Aunt Mama----the commander of the tribe, who died a virgin at the age of seventy-nine, differed from the others in her habits and language.

阿妈姨 Francisca Simodosea 是家族的指挥官，她终身未嫁，去世时79岁。她的生活习惯和语言都与其他人不同。

Aunt Francisca Simodosea Mejia always slept there, a first cousin of my grandfather's whom we called Aunt Mama, who had lived in the house as its lady and mistress since the death of her parents.

Francisca Simodosea Mejia姑妈睡在那里，她是祖父的大表姐，我们都叫她阿妈，自从她父母死了以后，她就像这所房子的女主人一样。

Every time I gesticulated while speaking, plus drawing some small sketches to ask the old ladies to get us sauce and vinegar, everyone laughed.

每次我连说带比划，不时画些小画，让那些老太太拿油端醋的，惹得大家哈哈大笑，几位阿妈妮也是笑了个前仰后合。

Some of my sources are: Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family who has all the ideas that go into the breeding of a good woman in China; a Soochow boat-woman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor; my cook's wife; a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York; a deck steward who made one good remark; that writer of a column on astronomy; all news in boxes; and any writer who does not kill our sense of curiosity in life or who had not killed it in himself… how can I enumerate them all?

我的写作素材来源如下：我家保姆&黄阿妈&，一位恪守妇道的中国妇女；粗话连篇的苏州船娘；有轨电车售票员；我家厨子的夫人；动物园里的幼狮；纽约中央公园的松鼠；一度言之有物的甲板服务员；天文专栏作家；信箱里的各路新闻；任何作家，只要他不扼杀我们对生活的好奇心，或他本人的好奇心尚未泯灭……来源之广，何胜枚举？

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。