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This past year, 2010, is the first year in which more children were born to non-white Americans than were born to white Americans;
過去的2010年，其他膚色的新生兒數(shù)量首次在美國，超過白人的新生兒;
the beginning of the true new world.
這是一個新時代的開始。
We are living when the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the Prime Minister of Germany both feel free to attack the idea of multi-culturalism.
而英國首相和德國總理都攻擊多元文化的主義。
Europe is in a crisis of political and social identity based on the relationship of European culture to other cultures.
歐洲正處于政治危機，并且它排斥外來文化。
And in the United States of America we have a different story.
而在美國就不同了。
But it is a story that is constantly in the need of being retold and revisited.
這是一個市場需要被重述和重新審視的話題。
And no one has done that more powerfully over the last 40 years then the two women its our privilege to hear from tonight.
并且，沒有人在過去40年里做過比我們今晚所特別聽到的兩位女士更強有力的事了。
So with that general context for our discussion, talking about a dialogue on immigration with Gish
因此在我們的討論的一般范圍內和任碧蓮，
and Maxine let me remind you of the distinctions that these two writers bring to us.
瑪克辛女士談論關于移民話題，讓我提醒各位關于兩位作者告訴我們的區(qū)別。
Gish Jen was born in Long Island a second generation Chinese-American.
任碧蓮女士出生于長島的一個第二代美籍華人。
She graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and later attended the Iowa Writers Workshop.
她畢業(yè)于哈佛大學英語學位并且后來參加了愛荷華作家協(xié)會。
Her first novel: Typical American, was short listed for a National Book Critic Circle award and featured in a PBS special on the American Novel.
她的處女作:《地道美國人》被授予國家批評家獎，并被競選在一個特別的公共廣播的美國小說中。
Since then she has published three more highly acclaimed novels:
此后，她先后出版了三部被高度贊揚的小說:
Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and her most recent work just published:World and Town,
《在希望之鄉(xiāng)的蒙娜》，《俏太太》和她最新出版的:《世界和小鎮(zhèn)》
which interestingly enough considers the experience, not only of the life of immigrants
有趣地思考了相關經(jīng)歷，并認為不僅有關移民的生活，
but the experience all humans have of coming to maturity and understanding the possibility of the end of the story.
也是所有走向成熟，從而理解故事結尾的可能結果。
