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I was pretty sure I knew what they were.
我很肯定是虱子。
I was the only person bringing young children on this corporate plane — and now my daughter most likely had lice!
這架商務(wù)機(jī)里就我?guī)е『⒆樱F(xiàn)在我女兒身上有虱子。
I spent the rest of the flight in a complete panic,
接下來這一路伴隨我陷入了無盡的恐慌。
trying to keep her isolated, her voice down, and her hands out of her hair, while I furiously scanned the web for pictures of lice.
我想方設(shè)法把她和別人隔離開，讓她小聲說話，不讓她抓頭，同時上網(wǎng)瘋狂搜索治療虱子的方法。
When we landed, everyone piled into rental cars to caravan to the conference hotel, but I told them to go ahead without me; I just needed to "pick something up."
飛機(jī)著陸以后，每個人都坐上了出租車陸續(xù)去往開會的酒店。我讓他們先走，因?yàn)槲倚枰澳命c(diǎn)東西”。
I dashed to the nearest pharmacy, where they confirmed my diagnosis.
我沖到最近的藥店，醫(yī)師證實(shí)了我的判斷。
Fortunately, we had avoided direct contact with anyone else on the plane, so there was no way for the lice to have spread,
幸運(yùn)的是，在飛機(jī)上我成功地避免了任何人和我女兒有直接接觸，所以虱子沒有擴(kuò)散，
which saved me from the fatal embarrassment of having to tell the group to check their own heads.
我也就不用尷尬地請其他人察看自己頭上有沒有虱子。
We grabbed the shampoo that I needed to treat her and, as it turned out, her brother — and spent the night in a marathon hair-washing session.
我抓起有治療效果的洗發(fā)水，一晚上都在房間里給女兒和她哥哥洗頭。
I missed the opening night dinner, and when asked why, I said my kids were tired. Frankly, I was too.
當(dāng)晚，我沒去參加會議的開場晚宴，有人問起時，我回答說孩子們太累了。說實(shí)話，我也很累。
And even though I managed to escape the lice, I could not stop scratching my head for several days.
而且，就算我想盡辦法避免被傳染上虱子，我也還是撓了幾天的頭。
It is impossible to control all the variables when it comes to parenting.
當(dāng)你做父母時，真的沒辦法控制住所有的變量。
For women who have achieved previous success by planning ahead and pushing themselves hard, this chaos can be difficult to accept.
那些善于提前規(guī)劃、努力進(jìn)取獲得成功的女性，她們在成為母親后通常很難接受生活突如其來的混亂。
