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"It can't be done" was shown to be wrong.
“不可能”變成了可能。
I was taking a shower in a hotel room in Sydney the moment she died, 600 miles away, in Melbourne.
當(dāng)她在600英里外的墨爾本逝世時(shí)，我正在悉尼的賓館房間洗澡。
I looked through the shower screen and saw her standing on the other side.
透過(guò)玻璃，我看到她站在對(duì)面。
I knew she had come to say goodbye. My mother phoned minutes later.
我知道她是來(lái)說(shuō)聲再見(jiàn)。我母親的電話幾分鐘后來(lái)了。
A few days later, we went to a Buddhist temple in Footscray and sat around her casket.
幾天后，我們?nèi)ootscray的佛寺，坐在她的棺材旁。
We told her stories and assured her that we were still with her. At midnight, the monk came and told us he had to close the casket.
我們講述著故事，向她保證我們一直陪著她。午夜僧人告訴我們，他必須蓋上棺材。
My mother asked us to feel her hand. She asked the monk, "Why is it that her hand is so warm and the rest of her is so cold?"
我母親讓我們感受祖母的手。她問(wèn)僧人“為什么祖母的手是溫的，其他地方那么涼？”
"Because you have been holding it since this morning," he said. "You have not let it go."
“因?yàn)槟鷱脑缟弦恢蔽盏浆F(xiàn)在”，他說(shuō)“你從未放手”。
If there is a sinew in our family, it runs through the women.
如果說(shuō)我們家族有動(dòng)力，那它一定來(lái)著于婦女們。
Given who we were and how life had shaped us, we can now see that the men that might have come into our lives would have thwarted us.
考慮到我們自身和生活的塑造，我們現(xiàn)在可以預(yù)見(jiàn)，一個(gè)男人必須挫敗我們才能融入我們。必須挫敗我們才行。
Defeat would have come too easily. Now I would like to have my own children, and I wonder about the boat.
失敗來(lái)的太容易。現(xiàn)在我想要自己孩子，自己的小船。
Who could ever wish it on their own? Yet I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
又有誰(shuí)不愿意呢？然而我害怕特權(quán)、安樂(lè)和權(quán)利。
Can I give them a bow in their lives, dipping bravely into each wave, the unperturbed and steady beat of the engine, the vast horizon that guarantees nothing?
給他們生命的槳，勇敢地劃入每個(gè)波浪，自然地、穩(wěn)穩(wěn)地發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)，寬廣的視野，不用任何擔(dān)保，我能做到嗎？
I don't know. But if I could give it and still see them safely through, I would.
我不知道。但是我可以放任它，看著他們安全的通過(guò)，這也是我希望的。
