异类之不一样的成功启示录 第191期:取得高等教育机会

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　　Fourteen people were killed and fifty-nine injured in Trinidad. Fourteen were killed and forty-seven injured in Barbados. 在特立尼达岛14个人被杀害、59个人受伤；在巴巴多斯岛，14个人被杀害、47个人受伤；

　　In Jamaica, a series of violent strikes shut down the country, and a state of emergency was declared. 在牙买加，一系列的暴力事件冲击着国家，整个国家都处于紧张状态。

　　Panicked, the British government took MacMillan's prescriptions¹ to heart,  慌了神的英国政府终于领会了麦克米兰书中的精髓，

　　The scholarships began in 1941. My mother and her twin sister sat for the exam the following year. 奖学金从1941年开始有，我的妈妈和她的双胞胎姐姐参加了第二年的考试，

　　That is how they got a high school education;  这就是她们能取得高等教育机会的原因。

　　My mother owes the course her life took to the timing² of her birth, to the rioters of 1937, and to William.M.MacMillan. 我的母亲非常感激她出生的时间，还有1937年参加暴乱的人们，感谢麦克米兰。

　　I described Daisy Nation, my grandmother, as "renowned³ for her beauty".  我的祖母戴西·纳森，因漂亮而出名。

　　But the truth is that was a careless and condescending⁴ way to describe her. 其实这种描述对她是不认真的且不尊重的。

　　She was a force. The fact that my mother and her sister left Harewood for Saint Hilda's was my grandmother's doing. 她有一种独特的魅力，实际上我的母亲和她的双胞胎姐姐能够离开海厄乌德到圣·希尔达完全是由于我的祖母。

　　My grandfather may have been in an imposing⁵ and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer. He buried himself in his books. 我的祖父曾经是一个让人印象深刻的学者，但他是一个理想主义者和一个空想家，他把自己埋藏在他的书中。

　　If he had ambitions for his daughters, he did not have the foresight⁶ and energy to make them real. My grandmother did. 即使他对他的女儿们有什么抱负，他也缺乏某种远虑和精力来实现它们，但我的外祖母却能实现。

　　Saint Hilda's was her idea: some of the wealthier families in the area sent their daughters there, and she saw what a good school meant. 去圣·希尔达学习是她的主意：她们那里有钱的人都把子女送到这儿来。她知道什么是好的教育，

　　Her daughters did not play with the other children of the village. 她的女儿们不用和小乡村的其它小孩子一起玩耍，

　　They read Latin and Algebra⁷ were necessary for high school, so she had her daughters tutored by Archdeacon Hay. 她们可以阅读书籍，学对高中有用的拉丁语和数学，所以她让牧师阿齐迪肯·海作为孩子的家庭教师。

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