这草坪曾属于我的祖父——他的晚年是在一间疯人院里度过的。
The lawn had belonged to my grandfather who lived out the end of his life in an insane asylum.
他使人民感到:有着某种共同的事业、那种夹杂着灾难和牵强附会的历史,属于我们所有的人,就是说,我们作为美国人,有着某些共同的东西。
He makes people feel there is some kind of a common enterprise, that history, with its tragedies and travesties, belongs to all of us, that we have something in common as Americans.
他的母亲,依旧是如此的睿智,让他坐下来,然后说道:“等一下,我的儿子,你应该还记得,那台洗衣机一开始就不是属于我们的。”
His mother, wise as she was, sat him down and said, "Wait a minute, Son." You must remember, that machine never belonged to us in the first place.
although I'm still, I'm still in the camp of cutting him some slack, as we say.
不过,我仍然属于愿意再给他一次机会的那部分人。
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