My mother is a tailor (裁缝). She makes ___1___ for people. She always tries to make people’s clothes ___2___. She can make all different kinds of clothes.
我妈妈是一名裁缝。她为人们做衣服。她总是想方设法让人们穿上漂亮的衣服。她会做各种各样的衣服。
I would like to tell you how my mother learned to make clothes. At first, she didn’t know ___3___ to make clothes at all! But then one day my father fell seriously ill and we children were young. My mother had to do something to ___4___ us. She started trying to make our clothes. That is how she learned. Day by day, she was getting ___5___. When our neighbors saw our beautiful clothes, they asked my mother to make clothes for ___6___, too.
我想告诉你们我妈妈是怎么学会做衣服的。起初,她根本不会做衣服!但是有一天,我父亲得了重病,而我们孩子还小。母亲不得不做些什么来照顾我们。她开始试着给我们做衣服。她就是这样学会的。日子一天天过去,她的手艺越来越好。邻居们看到我们做的衣服很漂亮,也请我母亲给他们做衣服。
But they were not paying my mother because she was not a real tailor then. So my grandfather told my mother, “If I buy you a sewing machine (缝纫机), you can tell people ‘I will make clothes for you, but you should pay me. You can pay me whatever you want. I will not tell you how much to pay.’” The people ___7___ to pay my mother. Some paid her ___8___, but others didn’t pay her very much. But my mother didn’t care because she was so happy.
但他们不付钱给我母亲,因为那时她还不是一个真正的裁缝。于是,外公对我母亲说:"如果我给你买一台缝纫机,你就可以告诉别人'我会为你们做衣服,但你们应该付钱给我。你想付多少钱都行。我不会告诉你该付多少钱'"。人们同意付给我母亲报酬。有些人给了她合理的报酬,但有些人给她的报酬并不高。但我母亲并不在意,因为她很开心。
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