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演讲简介：
2010年工程师TanLe来到TED全球舞台上，带来了富有激情的新面孔。但是在TED妇女中，她讲述了自己的独特经历：关于她的家庭，母亲、祖母和妹妹的故事--感受越南，建立新生活。
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- My first memories are from the boat -- the steady beat of the engine, the bow dipping into each wave, the vast and empty horizon.
- 我的第一个记忆来自于小船--发动机均匀的节奏，浅浅的波浪，一望无尽的海平面。
- I don't remember the pirates who came many times, but were bluffed by the bravado of the men on our boat, or the engine dying and failing to start for six hours.
- 我不记得海盗来了几次，却被船上男人们的虚张声势吓跑了，引擎熄火，6个小时无法启动。
- But I do remember the lights on the oil rig off the Malaysian coast and the young man who collapsed and died,
- 但是我记得边石油钻井反射的光；来自马来西亚海岸，年轻小伙虚脱而死，
- the journey's end too much for him, and the first apple I tasted, given to me by the men on the rig. No apple has ever tasted the same.
- 旅途早早结束；我尝到的第一个苹果，来自同船的一个男人。再也没有吃到那么美味的苹果。
- After three months in a refugee camp, we landed in Melbourne. And the next piece of the jigsaw is about four women across three generations shaping a new life together.
- 在难民集中营的三个月后，我们定居在墨尔本。下一片拼图是关于三代妇女共同创造的新生活。
- We settled in Footscray, a working-class suburb whose demographic is layers of immigrants.
- 我们定居于Footscray，一个工薪阶层市郊，以移民为主。
- Unlike the settled middle-class suburbs, whose existence I was oblivious of, there was no sense of entitlement in Footscray.
- 不像定居其他中级阶层市郊，我忘记了我的存在，更别说权利了。
- The smells from shop doors were from the rest of the world.
- 商店透出的味道仿佛来自另一个世界。
- And the snippets of halting English were exchanged between people who had one thing in common: They were starting again.
- 说着同样磕磕绊绊的英语，人们相互交流着。有一件事情是相同的，又重新开始了。
- My mother worked on farms, then on a car assembly line, working six days, double shifts.
- 母亲一开始在农村干活，后来去了汽车组装线，一周工作6天，双班倒。
- Somehow, she found time to study English and gain IT qualifications. We were poor.
- 有时她挤时间学习英语，获得了IT资格证。我们很穷，
- All the dollars were allocated and extra tuition in English and mathematics was budgeted for regardless of what missed out, which was usually new clothes; they were always secondhand.
- 节约每一分钱。剩余的钱都用来缴英语和数学的学费，不管再难，即使没有新衣服穿，穿二手的。
- Two pairs of stockings for school, each to hide the holes in the other.
- 上学时穿两双袜子，一双遮挡另一双上的洞。
- A school uniform down to the ankles, because it had to last for six years.
- 学校的制服盖过了膝盖，因为它得坚持6年。
- And there were rare but searing chants of "slit-eye" and the occasional graffiti: "Asian, go home."
- 虽然很少，但是搜寻圣歌的边边角角，偶尔的涂鸦说 “亚洲人，回家去吧！”
- Go home to where? Something stiffened inside me. There was a gathering of resolve and a quiet voice saying, "I will bypass you."
- 回家回到哪儿？一些事情刺痛了我的内心。一股力量在凝聚，安静的声音在说：“我要超越你。”
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