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Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort.
有時候我在夢里夢見迪伊和我突然成了這種電視節目的劇中人。
Out of a cark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people.
我從一輛黑色軟座墊大轎車上一下來，立刻被人引進一間寬敞明亮的屋子里。
There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have.
屋里有許多人，其中一個身材高大威武，滿面微笑，有點像著名電視節目主持人約翰尼.卡森的美男子迎上來和我握手，并對我說我養了個好女兒。
Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tear s in her eyes.
然后，我們來到臺前，迪伊熱淚盈眶地擁抱著我。
She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks or chides are tacky flowers.
還把一朵大大的蘭花別在我的衣服上，盡管她曾對我說過蘭花是很低級的花。
In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands.
在現實生活中，我是一個大塊頭、大骨架的婦女，有著干男人活兒的粗糙雙手。
In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day.
冬天睡覺時我穿著絨布睡衣，白天身穿套頭工作衫。
I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man.
我能像男人一樣狠狠地宰豬并收拾干凈。
My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.
我身上的脂肪是我在寒冬也能保暖。
I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open tire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog.
我能整天在戶外干活兒，敲碎冰塊，取水洗衣。我能吃從剛宰殺的豬體內切下來、還冒著熱氣、而后在明火上燒熟的豬肝。
One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill be-fore nightfall.
有一年冬天，我用一把大鐵錘擊倒一頭公牛，錘子正大在小牛兩眼之間的大腦上。天黑之前，我把牛肉掛起來涼著。
But of course all this does not show on television.
不過，這一切當然都沒有在電視上出現過。
I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake.
我的女兒希望我的樣子是：體重減去一百磅，皮膚像下鍋煎之前的大麥面餅那樣細膩光澤，頭發在熾熱耀眼的燈光下閃閃發亮。
My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Car–son has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
而且，我還是一個伶牙俐齒的人，說起話來妙語連珠，就連約翰尼.卡森也望塵莫及。
