BORN A CRIME- Day 18

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PART 1- 3句

1, We have people who cannot police themselves, so they want to police everyone else around them.

2, It had always been me and her together, me and her against the world.

3, Of course there is. Now you're officially the best-looking person in the family.

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PART 2- 3词

1, apologetic (adj.)

He was apologetic. He always was.

中文： 满怀歉意的

英文： showing or saying that you are sorry that something has happened, especially because you feel guilty or embarrassed about it.

apologetic about

例句：She gave me an apologetic smile.

同根词 apologize

apologize to

apologize for (doing) sth

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2, hindsight

For all the pain I felt that day, in hindsight, I have to imagine that Andrew's pain was far greater than mine.

中文：事后诸葛亮(the benefit/ wisdom of hindsight)，后知后觉

英文： the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened

OPP： foresight

例句：With hindsight, I should have seen the warning signs.

3, sedate

The doctors kept her sedated the rest of that day and night to rest.

中文： 沉着的，冷静的

英文： calm, serious, and formal

例句： The wedding was rather a sedate occasion.

此处表示 作者母亲已经没有什么大碍

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PART 3 - Thoughts

“My child, you must look on the bright side.”

“What? What are you talking about, ‘the bright side’? Mom, you were shot in the face. There is no bright side.”

“Of course there is. Now you’re officially the best-looking person in the family.”

在鬼门关走过一遭之后，不是惊慌，不是表达自己的无助，而是要Trevor look on the bright side, 什么是乐观，不是一篇篇心灵鸡汤的说教，是在危难面前的镇定，这大概就是所谓的见过“大世面”。

“She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing. Through my tears, I started laughing, too. I was bawling my eyes out and laughing hysterically at the same time. We sat there and she squeezed my hand and we cracked each other up the way we always did, mother and son, laughing together through the pain in an intensive-care recovery room on a bright and sunny and beautiful day.”

这幅画面超级美好，想像一下医院的病房，暖暖的午后，母亲脱离危机，自己本来泣不成声，被母亲的话逗笑，一束阳光打在屋子里，这就是幸福的模样，不管之前经历过什么都好，至少现在的我和母亲是平安的在一起的。 也让自己想起了自己骨折住院的那段日子。要珍惜时光。

读完这一章，作者的母亲很执拗，选择了就不停地在坚持，同作者不理解有些他母亲的坚持一样，我也不理解，亦或许是自己还是个“宝宝”不理解母亲有些时候的想法吧。作者的母亲很伟大，我的妈妈也很伟大，在我眼里丝毫不逊色。