Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

  • -- Maya Lin 林璎

我们的父母决定不教我们中文。在那个时代,他们认为如果我们没有这种复杂性,我们会过得更好。

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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

大多数作家都是这样说的:一方面,我从小所做的一切都是读书,我是一个孤独的人,这是由我的父母和我的成长所推动的。

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

有些双胞胎觉得他们需要互相比较,但我们不是这样的。但那是因为我的父母,还有家里六个孩子。

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

如果在我之前有三个公共编辑,身体可能会更好地吸收它。

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

我变得越来越擅长不让别人因为我的害羞而感到不舒服。