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I was born in a refugee colony in the capital city of India, New Delhi.
我出生在印度首都新德里的一個(gè)難民營里，
And my father was a freedom fighter.
而我的父親是一位自由戰(zhàn)士。
My mother was, well, just a fighter like mothers are.
我的母親呢，就像所有的母親一樣，也活得像個(gè)戰(zhàn)士。
And much like the original homo sapiens, we struggled to survive.
聽起來有點(diǎn)像是原始人，我們?yōu)榱松娑嗫鄴暝?/div>
When I was in my early 20s, I lost both my parents, which I must admit seems a bit careless of me now, but...
在我20歲出頭的時(shí)候，我爸媽就過世了，對(duì)于現(xiàn)在的我來說，不得不承認(rèn)我有點(diǎn)忘了。但是...
I do remember the night my father died, and I remember the driver of a neighbor who was driving us to the hospital.
我依稀記得的是我爸過世那晚，我記得是一位鄰居載我們到醫(yī)院的。
He mumbled something about "dead people don't tip so well" and walked away into the dark.
他一個(gè)人喃喃著，“人死了就收不到小費(fèi)了。”然后一個(gè)人消失在了黑夜中。
And I was only 14 then, and I put my father's dead body in the back seat of the car,
那時(shí)我才14歲，我把我爸的尸體放在后座，
and my mother besides me, I started driving back from the hospital to the house.
我的媽媽坐在副駕駛上，我就準(zhǔn)備開車要從醫(yī)院回家。
And in the middle of her quiet crying, my mother looked at me and she said, "Son, when did you learn to drive?"
我媽哭到一半，忽然轉(zhuǎn)頭問我，“兒子，你怎么會(huì)開車的？”
And I thought about it and realized, and I said to my mom, "Just now, Mom."
然后我想了一下，告訴我媽媽說，“剛剛學(xué)會(huì)的，媽媽。”
So from that night onwards, much akin to humanity in its adolescence, I learned the crude tools of survival.
自從那天晚上之后，就好像是人性步入了青春期一樣，我學(xué)會(huì)了最基本的生存方式。
And the framework of life was very, very simple then, to be honest.
老實(shí)說，其實(shí)這些生活的條條框框不難學(xué)。
You know, you just ate what you got and did whatever you were told to do.
反正你有什么吃什么，人家叫你做什么就做什么。
I thought celiac was a vegetable, and vegan, of course, was Mr. Spock's lost comrade in "Star Trek."
我曾以為“腹腔”是一種蔬菜，“素食主義者”是電影《星際迷航》里的“瓦肯族”。
