Hi·rosh·i·ma a city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a US nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people. It was rebuilt after the war, and is now a large industrial city again. →Nagasaki
1. Kaz's father had been born to a family of some wealth and social position in Hiroshima, and had emigrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit of adventure, not of need or flight; he never intended to stay. 和子的父亲出生在广岛一个殷实、有一定社会地位的家庭,20世纪20年代初移居美国,不是因为贫穷或者逃亡,而是冒险精神使然。但他从来没打算留在那里。
2. He moved back to Hiroshima at 40; it was expected of him as the sole male heir to their name. 40岁时他又把家搬回了广岛。他作为这个姓氏的惟一男性继承人,家人都盼望他这样做。
3. On a brilliant summer's morning in 1945, Kaz Tanaka looked up into the sky over Hiroshima and saw the beginning of the end of her world. She was eighteen. 1945年夏天, 一个阳光灿烂的早晨,田中和子抬头向广岛上空望去,看见了预示她的世界快要结束的前兆。当时她才18岁。