When you were 25 years old, she was busy decorating the house with colorful ornaments, reckoning on the date of you wedding. You thanked her by asserting to her holding your slim (slender) bride, "we are to be on a global tour wedding."
你25歲時,她忙著用多彩的飾品為你們裝飾房間,盼望著你的婚禮。你卻帶著你千嬌百媚的妻,聲稱你們要以環球旅游的方式結婚。
When you were 30 years old, you became a competent editor of Eastern Literature, busy with revising sequences of scripts every day. She was worried, asking you to rest besides work. You thanked her by moaning, "you can't realize the tense competition in media circle."
你30歲時,成了《東方文學》雜志出色的編輯,每日忙于創作或修改接二連三的稿件,她擔心你,囑咐你工作之余注意休息。你卻埋怨道:“你不知道傳媒行業的激烈競爭。”
When you were 35 years old, you divorced unfortunately. She came to you, tending to your daughter and doing housework at home. You thanked her by being drunk every night, smoking tobacco (cigar) one after another in the living-room.
你35歲時,不幸離婚了。她來你家幫你照顧女兒,料理家務。 你卻夜夜喝醉,在客廳里一根接一根地抽煙。
When you were 40 years old, you gained recovery from gloomy feelings gradually and became a well-known fiction author. She gave her genuine congratulations to you. You thanked her by trying to convince her to live with you, but she declined(refused).
你40歲時,漸漸從失意中走了出來,成了知名的小說家。她對你表示由衷的祝賀。你邀請她跟你一塊住,她謝絕了。

When you were 45 years old, with the oxygen mask, she was taken away by an ambulance due to an acute epidemic. You thanked her by thinking she actually shouldn't fall ill at the crisis of your career.
你45歲時,她因感染急性流行病,帶著氧氣面罩被救護車拉走了。你卻心里想,她真不該在你事業的關鍵時刻生病。
Then one day in autumn, she quietly died for tumor of lung tissue.
后來有一個秋天,因患肺部腫瘤她悄悄地走了。
In front of her ashes, you looked through your sometime albums, and the fragments of your life came into illusion; an infant, a youngster and a mature man in the end. Suddenly you perceived that there was no substitute for mother. Though sometimes she might think awkwardly or might not consent to your opinions, she was still your mother! All that she did was for the welfare of you.
面對她的骨灰,你慢慢翻看以前的相冊,成長的點點滴滴歷歷在目:從嬰兒,到青年,到現在。你突然間意識到,母親是不可代替的。盡管有時候,她的想法很奇怪,盡管有時你們達成一致,但她始終是母親,她所做的一切都是為了你的幸福。