"Ordinary" was the worst word my mother could find for anything。 Whenever she took me out for shopping, I found she wouldn' t listen to the shop assistants when they suggested that some dresses or pairs of shoes were the top sellers: "We' ve sold fifty already this week, madam。
  "
“一般”是我妈找到的最烂的词语。不管啥时候她带我去购物，我发现她不会听售货员的，当他们建议一些衣服或鞋子买的最好：“女士，这星期我们已经买出五十件（双）了。”
No," she would say, "We are not interested in it。
   Haven't you got something a little more unusual?" And then the assistant would bring out all the strange colours no one else would buy。
   And later she and I would disagree with each other what to buy。
“不”她会说，“我们对它不感兴趣。难道你们没有不一样一点的吗？”然后售货员就会拿出那些颜色奇怪的，别人不会买的衣服。
  过了一点时间之后，我们就会对于买的东西达成一致。
"I can' t stand that hairstyle," She said when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and came back with a boy-haircut, "It' s so terribly common。
   Not ugly but very often to be seen。"
“我受不了那个发型，”她说，当我和我的朋友去理发店然后剃了一个男孩的发型回来，“它太平常了。不丑但太平常了。”
"Couldn' t you please wear something else?" I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents' Day in tight-fitting trousers and a bright pink sweater。
  
"What' s wrong with what I' m wearing?" Mum looked into my eyes。
"It' s just that I wish you' d better wear something else," I said, "something that people won' t laugh at。
  "
She looked at me for a while, "Don' t you think that I' m losing your face?" She said seriously。 "If I do, Mary, I feel sorry for you。
  "
“难道你不能穿些别的？”一天当她为了家长会在试穿紧身裤和亮粉绒线衣时我问道。“我这么穿有啥不对？”妈妈看着我的眼睛。“我只是希望你最好穿些别的”我说，“穿些别的人们不会笑的衣服。”她看了我一huo，“你难道觉得我给你丢脸了吗？”她严肃地说，“假如是的话，Mary，我感到报歉。
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