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下面这篇短文请翻译一下。

But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses she cleaned books. So she came home one day, snapped off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this verbal visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this hushed sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom snapped off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.

Answer 1

但是有一天妈妈永远改变了我们的世界。她关掉了电视。我们的母亲只能为打通小学三年级。但是,她是太亮,比我们聪明的男孩知道和他在一起。她已经注意到一件在市郊住宅,但她还是打扫的书。所以她回家了一天,啪的一声折断了电视,坐在我们下来,并解释说她的儿子们去创造他们自己的生活。“你孩子要读两本书每个星期,”她说。“你准备写一份报告,对你读的是什么。”

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追答

我们呻吟和抱怨是多么不公平。除此之外,我们没有任何的书在那所房子里除了妈妈的圣经。但她解释说,我们就会去那里的书是:“我会开车送你去图书馆。"
真的很漂亮,很快就有这两个脾气暴躁的男孩坐在她的道路上的Oldsmobile白色1959年到底特律的公共图书馆。好奇我很不情愿地在儿童的书籍。我喜爱动物,所以当我看到一些书,似乎是关于动物,我开始翻阅他们。
　　我读清楚的第一本书通过在芯片大坝建设者。它是关于海狸队。在我人生的第一次我迷失的时候在另一个世界。没有电视节目曾带我远离我的环境作为
它没有黎明时分,在我的时候,但是这种经历是相当不同的看电视。有图像形成。在我的脑海里,而不是在我眼前。和我可以回到他们又用另一页的大小。
但很快我便开始盼望着去参观这寂静的圣所形成我的另一个世界。我从一地转移到动物植物,然后于岩石上。之间的所有书籍的封面是整个世界,我是自由的在他们去任何地方。在前进的道路上发生了一件有趣的事:我开始知道的事情。教师开始注意到这麽说了。我得到的地步,我等不及回到家,我的书了。

　现在我的哥哥是一名工程师,我主要的小儿神经外科在约翰霍普金斯儿童中心在巴尔的摩。有时我仍然不能相信我人生的旅途,从一个失败和淡漠的学生在底特律的公立学校,这个立场,带我全世界的教导和执行关键的外科手术。
　　但我知道,当旅程开始了这一天妈妈啪的一声折断了这台电视机,将我们在她的Oldsmobile那开车去了图书馆。

Answer 2

好短啊！

Answer 3

晕，这么一堆就给五分!?不翻译!