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"If you had asked her about her goals for her children, she would have said she wanted us out of there," my mother recalls.
我的母親回憶說：“如果你問她對女兒們的期望，她會說她希望我們離開這里，
"She didn't feel that Jamaican context offered enough. And if the opportunity was there to go on, and you were able to take it, then to her the sky was a limit."
她認為牙買加環境并不好。機會稍縱即逝，你必須好好把握，對她來說，她的理想似乎無限大。”
When the results came back from the scholarship exam, only my aunt won. My mother did not.
獎學金考試的結果出來了，只有我的姨媽得到了那個機會，我的母親沒有通過。
That's another fact that my first history was careless about.
這是另一個我忽略了的歷史。
My mother remembers her parents standing in the doorway, talking to each other. "We have no more money."
我的母親回憶，當時她的父母站在門口說：“我們沒有錢了。”
They had paid the tuition for the first term, and bought the uniforms and exhausted their savings.
他們已經支付了第一學期的學費，還為女兒買了校服，這花光了他們的積蓄，
What could they do when the second-term fees for my mother came due?
如果到應該為我母親付第二學期的學費時他們該怎么辦？
But then again, they couldn't send one daughter and not the other.
但從另外一方面說，他們又不能只送一個女兒去學習。
My grandmother was steadfast. She sent both and prayed.
我的祖母非常堅定，她把兩個都送了去——她祈禱——
At the end of the first term, it turned out that one of the other girls at the school had won two scholarships, the second was given to my mother.
在第一學期末，其中一個女兒能在學校取得了兩個獎學金，最后這真的成了事實，所以第二個獎學金便送給了我的母親。
When it came time to go to university, my aunt, the academic twin, won what was called a Centenary Scholarship.
當到了上大學的時候，我的姨媽——我母親的孿生姐妹，取得了學校的“百年獎學金”。
The "Centenary" was a reference to the fact that the scholarship was established one hundred years after the abolition of slavery in Jamaica.
這個獎學金是在牙買加廢除奴隸制度100年時建立的，專門為師范學校學生設立，
It was reserved for the graduates of public elementary schools, and, in a measure of how deeply the British felt about honoring the memory of abolition,
同時也是英國人對廢除奴隸制度的深刻紀念。
there was a total of one Centenary scholarship awarded every year for the whole island, with the prize going to the top girl and the top boy in alternating years.
在全英國，每年被授予“百年獎學金”的只有一個人，交替發給全國最優秀的男生和女生。
