华盛顿邮报 两年前, 一项堕胎禁令让青春期的他们成为父母(3)

 

    And, like, committing means what?

    投入是什么意思?

    Going for it.

    全力以赴。

    Yeah.

    是的。

    Feet on the board.

    要脚踏实地。

    Yeah.

    是的。

    No matter what, land it or die trying.

    不管怎样，要么成功，要么拼死成功。

    Yeah.

    是的。

    Yeah.

    是的。

    And he kind of talks about his decision to stay with Brooke and to raise these kids in the same way.

    他谈到了与布鲁克在一起，用同样的方式抚养孩子的决定。

    Everyone does that for a person after you've done it for so long.

    每个人都会为了一个人这么做，而且此前你已经付出了这么久。

    He just kind of says, "Well, yeah, like, I committed. Like, I was going to do it. I was doing it."他说，“嗯，是的，我会全力以赴。我本来就打算这么做。我正在这么做。”

    And he did everything in his power to, you know, position himself to provide for them in the best way possible.

    他尽其所能，让自己尽可能以最好的方式供养他们。

    Alright, so, Billy's in the military. He's this new man. He's decided¹ to go for it and make the commitment². What about Brooke? What is her life like now in Tampa?

    好，比利在军队服役。他是军队新人。他决定全力以赴，做出承诺。布鲁克呢? 她目前在坦帕市的生活怎么样?

    So, Brooke stays home with the girls and she cares for them full time.

    布鲁克待在家里照顾孩子们，全职照顾她们。

    And parts of that have been extremely rewarding.

    部分事情是非常有意义的。

    She really loves being a mom. She loves giving the girls a bath, putting them to bed.

    她真的很喜欢当妈妈。她喜欢给孩子们洗澡，哄她们上床睡觉。

    I just -- It gets me really emotional³.

    这让我很情绪化。

    Really?

    真的吗?

    I don't know if it's, like, my hormones⁴ or what, but I love holding them, just like that, and singing to them. I think it reminds me...

    我不知道是不是激素的原因，我喜欢抱着孩子们，对着他们唱歌。我想这让我想起了……But other parts of her life have been extremely difficult.

    但生活的其他部分却异常艰难。

    You know, she's living in this new city where she knows no one and she doesn't have anybody else besides her husband to help her with the girls, and her husband, Billy, he's at work from 2:00 in the afternoon until after 11:00.

    她目前住在一个新城市。在这里，除了她丈夫之外，没有其他人帮她照顾女儿们。而她丈夫比利从下午两点一直要工作到十一点多。

    And so she's just by herself in the apartment. And she dropped out of school when she got pregnant⁵.

    因此，她就一个人在公寓里。她怀孕后就辍学了。

    Well, she's thinking about going back, but it's hard to imagine how she'd do that.

    她在考虑回学校，但很难想象她如何重返校园。

    I'm tired of not having an education, not having, like, any plans, you know, like, in regards to school.

    我受够了无法接受教育，无法制定学校计划。

    And, you know, it would be nice to have something to keep me busy and something that I can depend on. And also "Judge Judy," but --而且，如果有什么能让我忙起来、能让我依靠的话，那就太好了。还有《朱迪法官》，但是--Okay, so, yeah, so, tell me what Judge Judy says.

    好吧，告诉我《朱迪法官》说了什么。

    Like, not to depend on a man.

    不要依赖一个男人。

    Yeah.

    是的。

    And to always make sure that you can support yourself, not to put yourself in a vulnerable⁶ position.

    要确保你能养活自己，不要让自己处于弱势地位。

    Yep. And so she wants to go back to school, but she can't even, like, leave the house with these two babies because they're toddlers, and there are two of them.

    是的。因此，她想回去上学，但她甚至无法带着两个孩子离开家，因为两个孩子还在蹒跚学步，而且是两个孩子。

    And as soon as she steps outside, they zoom⁷ off in two different directions.

    她一出门，两个孩子就会朝两个不同的方向飞奔而去。

    She can't even take them to the playground by herself because she can't control where they go, and one of them might, you know, fall off the jungle gym. It's so hard.

    她甚至不能一个人带孩子们去游乐场，因为她无法控制她们去哪里，她们中的一个可能还会从攀爬架上掉下来。这太难了。

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 commitment   

n.奉献，忠诚，辛劳，委托，实行，承担义务，赞助

参考例句：

• The builder had a commitment to finish the work on time.那个承建商答应过准时完工。
• He made a commitment to pay the rent on time.他保证按时付房租。

3 emotional   

adj.令人动情的；易动感情的；感情(上)的

参考例句：

• Emotional people don't stop to calculate.感情容易冲动的人做事往往不加考虑。
• This is an emotional scene in the play.这是剧中动人的一幕。

4 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

5 pregnant   

adj.怀孕的，怀胎的

参考例句：

• She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
• She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。

6 vulnerable   

adj.易受伤的，脆弱的，易受攻击的

参考例句：

• He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.她看上去很脆弱，他就主动去保护她。
• The company is in an economically vulnerable position.该公司目前经济状况不稳定。

7 zoom   

n.急速上升；v.突然扩大，急速上升

参考例句：

• The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
• I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。