(despite overwhelming evidence that this was not actually the case).
(虽然有很多证据表明,我并不是真的那么乖)。
Thank you for being my full-time, on-call, personal chauffeur from day one.
谢谢你从第一天起,就是我的专职私人司机,随叫随到。
Thank you for your delicious home cooking and for packing so much love and nutrition into my lunch box day after day and year after year.
谢谢你为我做美味的饭菜,在我的午餐盒里盛满爱和营养,日复一日,年复一年。
(And an extraspecial thank you, Mom, for the intoxicating smell of freshly baked brownies!)
(妈妈,还要特别感谢你新烤制的巧克力饼散发出的诱人香味!)
Thank you for letting a chubby-cheeked two-year-old run wild among your most precious possessions
谢谢你让一个小脸胖嘟嘟的两岁小孩把你最心爱的宝贝翻个底朝天,
and for not saying, “I told you so, I told you so, I told you so,” nearly as often as you could have.
而你多少次都忍住没说:“我跟你说过,我说过多少遍了。”......