在冒险进入美国后，由于没有工作许可，她和家里亲戚住了一段时间，靠给人编辫子的微薄收入勉强度日，之后还在布朗克斯的一个酒窖里工作过。
Havingentered the U.S. under dubious circumstances and without working papers, shelived with family members for some time, eking out an income braiding hair andthen working in a bodega in the Bronx.
如果你见到了孩子们乞求给别人编辫子来讨生活的景象的话，你会如同受到电击疗法一样改变自己的视角。
When you see the places where children beg to braid hair to have money for food, believe me, your perspective gets a little electro-shock therapy.
有人认为这些辫子是小偷为日后行窃编的。
Some people thought thieves were plaiting the manes of horses they wished to steal.
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