【中英文对照】8岁的小朋友 “我的妈妈和整个世界都不正常了”

唐子傅相约晓霜 2020-12-25

文／唐子傅（文后附英文原文）

三月的一天晚上，我非常害怕，因为白天我看了一个可怕的视频，这是我完成我的日常学习计划后，爸爸给我的奖励。我害怕一个人睡，我需要帮助。因此，我问妈妈是否她愿意陪我睡一晚。“当然！” 妈妈说。所以那天晚上我睡得很好，我梦见我在看我最喜欢的节目，达夫皮尔基的《内裤队长》。

夜里我妈妈出现喉咙痛、咳嗽、发冷，症状像COVID-19，我爸爸半夜上楼抱我下楼和他睡，但是这些，直到第二天早上我才知道。那晚我还梦见我在路易斯安那州拉斯顿的I-20高速公路桥上，可我知道我们已经搬家了，不会再回到那个老地方了，所以我想摆脱那个奇怪的梦，我试着从高桥上跳下去，但我想如果我这样做的话我会从床上摔下来，我不敢这样做，我再次试着从梦里出去，哦，我想起询问梦里面的爸爸，我问他是怎么做梦的，我爸爸回答我说，你闭上眼睛，想一想，我是这样做的，但我还是没办法从梦里出来。

直到早晨我醒来时，以为我还在做另一个梦，因为我想起我是在楼上睡觉的，结果却睡在楼下了，最后，厨房飘过来的食物的香味让我知道这不是在梦里。爸爸走过来说，早餐已经准备好了，并告诉我昨晚上发生的整件事情，他还告诉我，我需要戴好口罩然后把盘子里的食物端给楼上妈妈。妈妈病了，需要与我们隔离。

通常爸爸妈妈睡在楼下，我睡在楼上。但现在我和爸爸睡在楼下，她睡在楼上。现在我不能随便去看望我妈妈了，只能戴着一个大口罩上楼去看她。她也不让我去看她那么多。她拿起一块面包张开嘴吃，她的喉咙会痛，她会咳嗽得厉害。

在一个阳光明媚的日子里，我请爸爸和我一起打篮球，爸爸同意了，但是因为COVID-19，小区的管理员不让我们在篮球场打球。我们不得不在我们家前院打羽毛球、网球、踢足球和拍篮球。如果我们打篮球，没有球篮可以投，也不太能打网球，因为一个真正的网球场有围墙。这个地方也不适合踢足球（没有球门），还有球总是落在停放的车上，害怕车可能会被砸坏。当我们打羽毛球的时候，球甚至卡在车上或飘到车底下，如果球藏在车轮下面，半天捡不着。

COVID-19让我们的生活发生了很大的变化。一开始，觉得非常无聊，不能上学，不能去图书馆。不能去教堂，也不能去社区公园玩。也不能到别的地方去，更不能到很远的地方去。我不能和我的朋友一起玩。

呆在家里我想办法让之前的生活重现。我在我的房间里搭起了两个帐篷，想象着是在和朋友一起野营。我还可以在草地的小径上走走，但也有其他人想到了同样的事情，所以，我们要注意避开。我学会了叠飞回镖，我叠了很多飞回镖。我在门前的草地上玩飞回镖。我把叠飞回镖的过程制作了多个小视频，网上发给了我的朋友们，让他们也学会玩这个。

两周后，妈妈病好了。我可以和我妈妈一起骑自行车在小区的路面上来来回回，我可以在前院子里锻炼。现在，我可以在Zoom 和Google Meeting里上课，一切都变得更好了。我可以学习如何打字，看视频和玩视频游戏！如果我想要这么玩时间久一点的话，我会问爸爸，是否我能下载一个游戏，它会更好，它被称为地铁冲浪者，我可以每天玩二十分钟，因为在家时间比较多。

我在星期一到星期五，每周会见到我的两到八位老师，但都是在电脑上,不是真的见了。除了我的学校要上的网课之外，我还另有一节中文课是在星期一到星期五；星期二晚上我还有一个童子军Zoom会议，星期六我还要上素描课和中国国画课。星期天，我没有课要上，所以，我会弹钢琴，做一些自己的工作和其他有趣的事情，比如骑自行车，跳绳。还有一种是给老人玩的球叫柔力球，我也会玩，当球滚到车底下，我总是想办法把它捡出来，不想浪费十美元，因为上次我试着把另外一个球扔得尽可能高，在它落地前抓住它，但是那一次，我把它扔到屋顶了，再也捡不到了。

我仍旧有一些喜欢的食物, 像奥利奥、酸奶、和几盒蛋糕粉，可以用来制作一些甜饼。

我的好朋友也是我的邻居，仍然很高兴见到我，但是我们不能相互走得太近，还有戴口罩一起奔跑让我呼吸困难。

COVID-19在美国传播的危险期，我们不得不呆在家里，我们不能像往常一样做正常的事，但是我希望，你的生活不要变得太糟糕。

【作者简介】唐子傅(Teddy Tang), 8岁，北卡教堂山格林伍德小学（GlenWood Elementary) 二年级中英双语班学生。

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文中照片由唐子傅家人提供

Teddy为大家演奏的钢琴曲 Für Elise：

【英文原文】

MY MOM AND THE WHOLE WORLD

IS NOT GOING NORMAL

By Teddy Tang (8-Year-Old Elementary School Student)

One night in March, I was very scared because I watched a scary video for the award of my everyday schedule. I’m afraid to sleep alone, I needed help. So, I asked my mom if she would like to accompany me to sleep for one night, “sure!” my mom said. So I sleped very well that night. I dreamed that I was watching my favorite show called Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. At midnight, my mom initially developed a sore throat, low fever, cough, aches with a little bit chill. The symptom was like COVID-19.

My dad went upstairs at midnight and brought me downstairs to sleep with him. I did not know about it until next morning. I was having a dreaming that I was on highway I-20 of Ruston of Louisiana State, I knew that I wouldn't be back in that place, so I thought of a trick to get away from that weird dream. First, I tried to jump off of the high bridge but I thought that I would fall off of my bed if I do it so I didn't dare. I tried to trick my own dream again, oh! I tried to ask my dad in-the-dream, I told him how do you dream? My dad responded to me, he said to close my eyes and imagine. I did, but I still could not get away from that dream.

When I woke in the morning, I thought that I was in another dream, because I remembered that I was sleeping upstairs but ended up downstairs. Finally, I believed it because of the delicious smell of food. Dad said that the food was ready and told me all the things that happened to my mom last night. He told me that I needed to bring the plate of food up to my mom wearing a mask. My mom had been sick, and we had to do quarantine.

Normally my mom and dad sleep downstairs and I sleep upstairs. But now my dad and I slept downstairs and now she slept upstairs. I can’t visit my mom very much and I could not only go up and see her with a large mask covered tightly. And she didn’t let me go up and visited her that much either. And when she ate a piece of bread, and she opened her mouth and swallowed it, her throat will hurt, and she might cough a lot.

On a sunny day, I asked my dad to play basketball with me, my dad agreed, the property manager of the community didn’t allow us to play basketball on the court. So, we had to play badminton, tennis, soccer, and basketball just in front our yard with my dad. If we played basketball, we don’t have a net to shoot in. It’s too windy to play badminton because a real badminton court have high fences. The place isn’t so flat to go and play soccer (no goal to kick the ball in). And when we played tennis, the ball always hit the cars in the parking lot. The hard tennis ball might damage or even get stuck on top or under the cars and if the ball hides under the car wheels, the tennis ball might explode!

Under the influence of Novel Coronavirus, our life has changed. At the beginning, things were getting very boring during the Covid-19 crisis. No going to school, no going to the library. No church worship or Sunday school, no central community park, no basketball courts. No traveling to other places, and social distancing I can’t play with my friends very much. Then, so we stayed at home thinking of a way to get things going on again. We settled two tents in the room, imitated camping with friends, we went to the camping with the big tent before Covid-19. further, I can still go to the library’s trail but there’s others who thought of the same thing, we have to avoid it. I learned to fold a boomerang; I folded a lot of them. I flew the boomerangs in the front yard. I took a lot of video and sent it to my friends so they can learn how to fold it.

Two weeks later, we found that my mom did not have the terrible virus, she just had a cold. Thus, I can ride my bike back and forth around the naborhood with my mom, I can get virtual class on the app called zoom and google meeting now. I can learn how to type, watch videos, and play video games! “And that if we are going to do this for too long”, I asked my dad. If I can download a game, it will be much better. It was called subway surfers.I can play it every day for twenty minutes except for the weekends, because I don’t do as much online classes as the week.

We can meet my two to eight teachers every Monday to Friday in a week. but just on the computer, it’s not in real life, I also have another Chinese class from Monday to Friday and on Tuesday’s night I have a boy scout zoom meeting. On Saturday I still have to take sketch class and Chinese art class. And Sunday, I don’t have any class to take. So, I could play piano, do some work. And other fun stuff like biking, jump roping. And playing a kind of ball that might be for old people, but I still play it too, it always was in the car. We got it out and did not want to waste ten dollars for it last time we were trying to throw is as high as we can and catch it before it touches the ground but bad thing. Once I tried to throw it very high but got it stuck on the roof. But we still had food like some Oreos, yogurt, and some sweet flour to make sweet pies. And my good friend/neighbor is still happy to see me. But we can’t get too close to each other in the hate of Covid-19 and can’t really wear a mask while running because we have to catch our breath.

Amid the Covid-19 crisis, it has spread rapidly in the U.S, we have to stay at home, we can’t do so much normal stuff as usual, but I hope that things don’t get too bad in your life.

【About the Author】Teddy Tang, 8 years old, Glenwood Elementary School, Dual language second grader.