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。