1. Grandmother?! I felt like I had been given a label and my position lowered somehow.
    外婆？！我觉得自己被贴上了标签，地位也有点下降了。

2. But being put in a particular category about that bothered me, as though all of my reactions could be known in advance and belonged to the general group "grandmother" rather than to me.
    但是就此而被归于某一特定的类别却使我不快，好像我所有的反应人们都能预见，也都为一般的"祖母"类的人所有而不是属于我自己似的。

3. Recently, I have, in fact, become a grandmother.
    我最近的确当外婆了。

4. I grew up in a little town called Henning, Tennessee, in the home of my maternal grandmother.
    我是在田纳西州一个叫汉宁的小镇上外祖母的家中长大的。

5. I learned how my mother, through means only available in this country, would finally be able to unite my great-grandmother with my grandfather again.
    我知道了妈妈是怎样通过只有在这个国家才能找到的渠道，最终成功地使我外曾祖母和外公重新团圆的。

6. I — who had always performed especially well for my grandmother, danced and sung for her, presented her with kisses and good report cards — stopped writing to her, ceased to visit.
    我停止给外婆写信，也不去她家了。此前，我在外婆面前表现一直很好，为她唱歌跳舞，亲吻她，给她看优秀成绩报告单。

7. I spread her toys out on my grandmother's bed and sat her down.
    我把她的玩具摆在外婆的床上，放她坐下。

8. I admire the wedding dishes (once my grandmother's) that my mother has set on the table.
    我羡慕妈妈摆在桌上的婚宴菜碟（那曾经是外婆的）。

9. I must admit that I am now a devoted grandmother,
    我得说我现在已是一个慈爱的外祖母，

10. First, I moved. And while I found easy acceptance among older people in the community, when younger people talked to me they invariably would say something like, "You remind me of my grandmother."
    首先，我搬家了。在新的环境里我很容易融入到年长者中去，而当年青人与我说话时，他们总会说"你使我想起我外婆"之类的话，