在我面试到第三个保姆的时候，我遇到了一个稳重、冷静母亲，她的女孩和我小儿子一样大。
On my third nanny interview I encountered a reserved, self-possessed mother of a baby girl the same age as my son.
丈夫用微弱的声音说：“亲爱的，告诉我小儿子是不是我亲生的，我只想在死前知道真相。”
"Darling," the husband whispers, "Tell me whether the youngest child really is mine." I want to know the truth before I die.
当四月份我小儿子的三岁生日2个客人使用谷歌电子地图来我家时事情就一点不好笑了，他们在几英里以西的同名街道来回盘绕。
The situation becameless humorous when two guests to my younger son's third birthday party in Aprilused Google map data to find us—and wound up several miles west at a similarlynamed street.
当琳达把刚出生的小儿子拉起来的时候，我和女儿赶紧跑到她身边。
As Linda pulled our tiny newborn son up, our daughter and I rushed to her side.
那天，他们的小儿子埃里克看起来很平静，最后一次抚摸那只老狗，我怀疑埃里克明白发生了什么。
On that day, their little boy Eric seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if Eric understood what was going on.
我的小儿子给了我一个教训。
我知道为什么我的小儿子会每个梨都咬一口。
当听说我如今已36岁的小儿子住在阿拉斯加时，我的中国朋友们都很惊奇。
My Chinese friends are surprised to hear that my younger son, now 36 years old, lives in Alaska.
我马上想到了许多名字：我们当地书店的老板，他在开店前让我和我的小儿子进去，并主动播放他最喜欢的歌曲；我们的保姆，她会放下一袋旧的棋盘游戏给我们的孩子玩；……
I thought of a number of names right away: the owner of our local bookstore, who let me and my little son in before the store opened and offered to play his favorite songs; our babysitter, who dropped off a bag of old board games for our kids to play; ...
他想：“我的小儿子比我要聪明。尽管我有智慧罐，但他还是更聪明。”
He thought, "My young son is wiser than I. I have the wisdom pot, yet he is wiser."
顾说：“我们心满意足。我可以告诉人们，我已经尽力了，你们的孩子不会再得小儿麻痹症了。”
"We feel satisfied. I can tell people that I tried my best, and your kids will no longer get polio," said Gu.
无论我到哪里了解小儿麻痹症，都会看到国际扶轮社所做的艰苦工作。
Everywhere I go to learn about polio, I see Rotary members helping out with the hard work.
我读过关于这个主题最好的书是戴维欧斯卡的《小儿麻痹症：一个美国历史》。
One of the best books I’ve read on the subject is David Oshinsky’s Polio: An American Story.
但是直到上大学后，我才发现事物的难度，并且才意识到我的第一个任务就需要付出艰苦的努力，可不是像我原来那样，趁吃饭的功夫就可以匆匆解决的小儿科。
But I didn't find anything difficult until I went to university and realised that the first assignment required hard work and couldn't be dashed off while I was eating, as I'd been used to.
我一直以来都怀疑他患上了孤独症，我们社区小儿科医生把他送去做了一个评估测试。
I had long suspected he could have autism and our community paediatrician sent him for an assessment.
当听说我的小儿子--如今已36岁--住在阿拉斯加时，他们都很惊奇，“阿拉斯加？
My Chinese friends are surprised to hear that my younger son, now 36 years old, lives in Alaska. Alaska?
在2003年，我预测说我们离根除小儿麻痹症最多还有两年的时间，但是我说错了。
In 2003 I would have said we were just a couple of years away from ending polio, and I would have been wrong.
这时我看到小儿子在我还没捡树叶的地方踩树叶玩，听着干枯的树叶被踩时发出的噼啪声，他开心地笑着。
Then I looked over at my son. He was in an area I hadn't raked yet, stepping on the dry leaves to hear the crackling noise they made, and smiling happily.
当她看到这些时不禁喜极而泣：“他是我遗失在森林里的小儿子啊！”
And when she saw them she wept for joy, and said, 'he is my little son whom I lost in the forest.
我那可爱的，小卷毛，蓝眼睛的小儿子找到了开关，然后把那玩意放在头上，：妈妈，像这样？
With that, my beautiful, mop-topped, brown eyed baby boy finds the "on" switch and starts running my big ol 'dildo all over his head. "Like this, Mama?"
这次我的小儿子说道：“舅公，你可不可以把你要说的写下来，这样我就可以复印了。”
This time, my little son said, "Granduncle, can you write down what you said and I can xerox it."
后来，父亲生了大病，他躺在病床上，临终时把他的妻子叫到身旁对她说，“亲爱的，在我死之前，你对我说老实话-我们的小儿子是不是我的孩子？”
The father eventually took ill and was lying on his deathbed when he turned to his wife and said, "Honey, before I die, be totally honest with me - is our youngest son my child?"
即便我经常在世界各地遭到六岁儿童的“杀伤”（译者：理解为在游戏中被六岁小儿击毙），但这正说明了你不必有什么擅长就可以享受这种游戏。
Even though I’m regularly fragged by 6 year olds across the world, it just goes to show you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it.
“我以后不要小孩”，我的小儿子在和他女朋友的侄子侄女相处一天后说，“就算要也要等我40岁以后再说。”
"I'll never have kids, " my younger son said the other day, after a week spent with his girlfriend's nephews and nieces, "not till I'm 40, anyway."
几年前，当我正在写一本关于小儿麻痹症的疫苗的书时，我有幸花了几个月来研读Jonas Salk的个人论文。
Several years ago, when I was writing a book about the polio vaccine, I had the opportunity to spend months wading through the personal papers of Jonas Salk.
一天晚上，我们坐在烧的正旺的火炉边，我的小儿子说：“里德先生说，你为树做的每一件事，它都会给你一些回报。”
"Mr.Reid says a tree gives back something for everything you do for it." my younger son remarked one evening as we sat before a blazing fire. "He says we must never waste anything a tree gives us." I.
我不能去找工作，因为一般的上班时间都是早上9点到下午5点，这段时间我得照顾我的小儿子。
I can't get a job because most are from nine to five and I have a young son.
我让小儿子坐在沙发上，告诉他‘我们陷于困境了。’
I sat down my youngest son on the couch and I told him, 'These are rough times.'
我的小儿子现在有了十二颗牙了，所以我给他买了第一把儿童牙刷。
My little son has twelve teeth now, so I will buy him his first baby toothbrush.
我的小儿子现在有了十二颗牙了，所以我给他买了第一把儿童牙刷。
My little son has twelve teeth now, so I will buy him his first baby toothbrush.
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