“Mom, you must have been terribly bored staying at home when I was a child",I said.
"Bored? Housework is boring.But you were never boring”.
I didn't believe her, so I said.”Surely children are not as stimulating as a career.”
“A career is stimulating,” she said. “ I'm glad I had one. But a career is like an open balloon. It remains inflated only as long as you keep pumping. A child is a seed . You water it,
1 One lunchtime when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had painstaking rehearsed my lines with me.
2尽管 在家里我能把台词念的多熟练,可是只要一上台,我就连一句都说不出来了
单词提示:
painstaking adj. 辛苦的,辛勤的
rehearse v. 预演,排练。
But no matter how easily I delivered them at home,as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappea...[
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