My mother is a cleaning fanatic. One Saturday she told me and my brother to get down to the playroom and straighten it up. We had had a party there the previous evening and she was none too happy about the mess. As she watched us work, it was clear Mom was completely dissatisfied with our cleaning efforts and let us know it. Finally my brother, exasperated with having to do it all over, reached for a broom and asked, “Can I use this or are you planning to go somewhere?”
我的媽媽有潔癖。一個星期六,她讓我和我弟弟到樓下的游戲室去打掃。頭一天晚上我們在那里聚會,我媽媽對那里的凌亂非常不高興。當(dāng)她看著我們干活的時候,顯然她對我們所干的完全不滿意,讓我們重來。我弟弟生氣了,拿來一把掃帚,說:“如果你再不走開,我就要用這個了?!?