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苔丝8岁那年就已经很懂事了。有一天,她听见爸爸妈妈在谈她弟弟安德鲁的事。她只听到说弟弟病得很重,而家里一点钱也没有了。他们下个月就得搬到公寓楼去住,因为爸爸已经付不起医药费和房子的月供了。现在弟弟需要接受一个费用昂贵的手术才有可能保住性命,可是看起来没有人会借钱给他们。她听见爸爸用绝望的口气,轻轻地对泪水涟涟的妈妈叹道:“现在只有奇迹才能救得了他。”苔丝走到自己的卧室,从壁橱里一个隐蔽的地方翻出一只玻璃果酱罐子。她把里面所有的零钱都倒出来摊在地板上,仔细地数起来。数了三遍结果都一样。
Tess was very sensible at the age of eight. One day, she heard Mom and Dad talking about her brother Andrew. She only heard that her brother was very ill and that she had not got any money at home. They have to move to the apartment building next month because daddy can not afford the medical bills and the monthly house. Now my brother needs to accept an expensive operation before he can save his life, but no one seems to lend to them. She heard his father, in a desperate tone, gently sigh at the rippling tears of his mother: “Now only a miracle can save him.” Tess went to her bedroom and puffed out of a hidden place in the closet Only glass jam jar. She put all the change inside out on the floor, carefully counted. Three times the result is the same.