31. My mother

My mother is a senior high schoolEnglish teacher. Under standards, she wanted her daughter to pick up English earlyto give her an edge to later study, which I did not understand at the ageof eight. I was so obsessed with fun and games that I hated to stay peacefullywith all those strange phonetic symbols and odd words. I wondered whatpleasure Mother seemed to have found in teaching me A, B, C. Wasn'tteaching at school tire some enough for her?I went on strike, refusing to spell a single word nomatter how an or severe Mother tried to be with me. For the first time in mylife, Mother beat me,Imprinting on my mind. The physical pain was gone long,long ago. But I have finally come to understand how it pained my mother to beat me for my obstinacy and disobedience,and I ache at her pain.

我的母亲

我妈妈是一名高中英语老师。在标准下，她希望女儿早点学会英语，以便在以后的学习中有一个优势，而我在8岁的时候还不明白这一点。我是如此痴迷于娱乐和游戏，以至于我讨厌与那些奇怪的语音符号和奇怪的单词和平相处。我不知道母亲在教我A、B、c时似乎找到了什么乐趣。难道在学校教书还不够让她厌倦吗?我罢工，拒绝拼一个字，不管一位严厉的母亲怎样试图和我在一起。这是我有生以来第一次，妈妈打了我，烙印在我的脑海里。身体上的疼痛很久很久以前就消失了。但我终于明白了，母亲打我是多么痛苦，因为我的固执和不听话，我为她的痛苦而心痛。