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212.Staying Together as a Family
212.維持一個家
When Joey's parents died, the children had to take inventory of how each person could fill their shoes in the family to keep it together! David, Joey's older brother, took charge of earning money. Lucy, his older sister, took control of the house. Joey was left to take care of his baby sister, Emily. He thought that was great; he would surely be able to take it easy more often than David and Lucy. Boy was he wrong!
喬伊父母去世時，為了使家維持下去孩子們得調査清楚誰接替誰的工作。哥哥大衛負責掙錢。姐姐露西負責管家。喬伊則負責照看小妹妹愛米莉。喬伊認為這個分工不錯，他肯定會比大衛和露西有更多的時間放松。他可是大錯特錯了！
Watching Emily was a lot of work!
照看愛米莉還真是有的忙！
It was so difficult that Joey took issue with Lucy that her job was easier than his! Emily was messy—it took forever to clean up after her! And she needed constant attention—Joey couldn't even take in a concert with his friends because he had to watch her!
喬伊的工作太難做了，以致他和露西爭論她的工作要輕松得多！愛米莉難對付得很——他要不停地跟在她后面收拾這收拾那！而且她一刻也離不開人——就因為要照看她，喬伊連和朋友去聽音樂會都不行。
Lucy told Joey that he wasn't taking into account how much she had to sacrifice either! They all realized that they had taken for granted how much work their parents did for them. And they missed them terribly!
露西告訴喬伊他也沒考慮到她得做多大的犧牲！他們都意識到原來父母為他們做了那么多，而他們卻認為理所當然。他們是多么懷念父母啊！
David especially wanted to take back all of the mean things he had said to his dad. Now David realized what it took to support a family! It was all very hard to take in!
大衛尤其想收回他對父親說過的那些難聽的話?，F在他明白了支撐一個家有多難！而理解這一點又是多么不容易！
So they all took heart from each other, encouraging each other to take care; they wanted to stay together!
因此他們相互打氣，相互鼓勵多加注意，因為他們想永遠在一起！
And they promised to never take down their last family portrait with their parents! It was a reminder of all that they were working for!
而且他們答應永遠不會把與父母的最后一次合影拿下來！這張照片時刻提醒著他們為什么要做這些工作！
