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A single shoe flies at you through the corner of your eye when you see your grade on your last math test. You got a B! How disgraceful! Your mother is standing in the doorway, fuming. You can see smoke coming out of her ears, and her face is so red it could be in the next tomato pageant beauty queen contest!
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pageant beauty queen contest 選美比賽，通常又叫做 beauty pageant
當你看到自己最後一次的數學考試成績時，你也從眼角瞥見一隻鞋飛向你。你得了個B！多麼可恥 (disgraceful) 啊！你母親超級生氣的站在門口，氣得耳朵直冒煙。她的臉紅得像要參加下一屆番茄的選美比賽。
You stare at the paper in your hand. Of course, like any other “Asian” mother, she scolds, “Aiyah, A is for Average”. And anything under an A-? Well, let’s just say you’d be living outside for a day. It is exactly like what Mushu said in Mulan, “Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole family! Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!” But rather than running away to save all of China like Mulan, you get a B on a 5-point homework assignment!
你盯著手中的試卷。果然，像其他亞洲母親一樣，她斥責道：“唉呀，A 就是 Average，平均而已 ”。而任何低於 A- 的成績呢？好吧，只能說你今天得睡外面了。就像木鬚龍在《花木蘭》中說的，“羞恥！你給整個家族、給你、給你的牛帶來羞辱”。但你沒有像花木蘭那樣跑去拯救全中國，你只是在一個 5 題作業上得了個 B！