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I also want to thank my colleagues in the English department, especially Professor Jenny Barber,
我還想要感謝英語學院的同事們尤其是珍妮·巴博教授，
the editor of Salamander Literary Journal and my co-director at the poetry centre.
她是火蜥蜴文學期刊的編輯以及我在詩歌中心的主管。
And I would be really remiss, I mean deeply deeply remiss if I didn't thank Marilyn Plotkins, Jim Kaufman, Ben Sigda, Kat Kingsley,
如果忘了感謝瑪麗琳·波里金，吉姆·考夫曼，本·西達，卡特·金斯利，
Nora Sidoti and Jim Kaufman, oh I said him twice, Jim, for the really great help that they have been, not just tonight but over the years.
諾拉·西多地以及吉姆·考夫曼，哦，我提了吉姆兩次，因為他們給予了很多幫助，不只是今晚，而是很多年一直如此。
Maxine's first visit to Suffolk was in the C.Walsh theatre
湯女士第一次來訪薩福克郡，是在沃爾什劇場，
and we were just reminiscing about how all the students from various classes were required to go and that that theatre was packed
我們當時回想了不同課的學生們如何涌進劇場，幾乎擠得水泄不通，
and we were so grateful then and we remain just delighted to work together.
我們非常感謝、非常開心當時能一起工作。
Tonight Maxine will read for about thirty five minutes, from her work and then we have built in time for questions and answers.
今晚湯女士會為我們演講35分鐘，從她的工作說起，接著會有提問時間。
If there is a microphone moving around, great, I see one,
應該有一個麥克風，好的，我看見一個了，
if not the theatre has such good acoustics that I think one can even stand up and be heard.
如果音響效果不夠好，你們也可以站起來提問。
Maxine Hong Kingston was born in Stockton California to immigrant parents,
湯婷婷女士出生在加州斯托克頓，父母都是移民，
she is the author of The Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts.
她是《女戰士》一書的作者。
It won the national book critics circle award for nonfiction in nineteen seventy six.
這本書贏得了1976年美國全國書評界非小說類最佳獎。
That book was followed truly by its companion work China Men which won the national book award in nineteen eighty one.
隨后的《中國佬》一書又獲得了1981年的全國書評獎。
