Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

写诗，而不是诗歌。公众需要诗歌。如果你有写诗的天赋，那就不要管它，试着写诗吧。

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

是的,妈妈。我知道你有缺点。你没有把它藏起来。那是你给我最好的礼物。

Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

是的，我确实曾经击倒过一匹马。那是在我母亲的家乡瓜拉雷的一个节日上。有人跟我打赌一瓶威士忌，说我做不到。

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

是的，我的母亲是一名歌手，我的父亲弹钢琴和键盘。他们在一个乐队里，虽然他们也有固定的工作，因为他们有孩子之类的。

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

当你是一个家庭的母亲时，你就是一个最重要的人。只要做好你的工作，你的孩子就会爱你。

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.

当你爱她的时候，你是丑陋的;当你不爱她的时候，你是美丽的、清新的、充满活力的、自由的;当你不爱她的时候，你是现代的、诗意的……你当孤儿比你母亲的儿子更漂亮。

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.

你不可能成为一个伟大的母亲，而且必须一直工作;这两件事并不理想。关于我们的工作生活，我们有很多工作要做，也有很多争论，因为它对很多人都不起作用，尤其是对很多女性。

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

你知道，我不认为任何一个母亲的目标是成为一个单身母亲。我不希望那样，但它发生了。

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

你知道，我把我弟弟放进了电影里，他现在还在照片里。我妈妈让我把他放进照片里。

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

你从小就认为做母亲是你成长过程中不可避免的一步，但你开始问自己一些问题，因为并不是每个女人都想要孩子。

Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.

你母亲没有把你永远抚养成一个孩子。