全新版大学英语综合教程第四册学习笔记（原文及全文翻译）——3B-AMortalFlower。。。.pdfVIP

全新版⼤学英语综合教程第四册学习笔记（原⽂及全⽂翻译） ——3B-AMortalFlower。。。 A Mortal Flower Han Suyin was born in Beijing in 1917. Her father was a Chinese railway engineer and her mother a Dutch lady. She is a physician and the author of many works, including A Mortal Flower, which tells of the experiences of the author and her family, both in and out of China. This excerpt describes the authors experience of looking for her first job in the early 1930s. A Mortal Flower Han Suyin The day after meeting Hilda I wrote a letter to the Rockefeller Foundation, applying for a job. Neither Father nor Mother thought I would get in. You have to have pull. Its an American thing, Rockefeller Foundation. You must have pull. Mother said: Thats where they do all those experiments on dogs and people. All the Big Shots of the Nanking government also came here to have medical treatment, and sometimes took away a nurse to become a new wife. It made sense to me, typing in a hospital; I would learn about medicine, since I wanted to study medicine. And as there was no money at home for me to study, I would earn money, and prepare myself to enter medical school. I had already discovered that a convent-school education was not at all adequate, and that it would take me at least three more years of hard study before being able to enter any college at all. Science, mathematics, Chinese literature and the classics . . .with the poor schooling given to me, it would take me years to get ready for a university. I will do it, But clenched teeth, decision tearing my bowels, were not enough; there was no money, no money, my mother said it, said it until I felt as if every scrap of food I ate was wrenched off my fathers body. No one is going to feed you doing nothing at home. Of course, one who does not work must not eat unless one can get married, which is called: being settled at last. But with my looks I would never get married; I was too thin,