Despite growing up in a village near Bainitang himself, Mr Liu's challenge in taking up the case was a formidable one.
尽管刘尧本人就在白坭塘附近的村庄长大,但他承接此案面对的却是极其艰巨的挑战。At first, he thought it was because there was no school in walking distance to the village, but later he said that was not true.
刚开始,他认为是因为在他出生的村庄附近没有可以步行上学的学校,但是后来他说,这个想法不对。And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.
便打发使者在他前头走。他们到了撒玛利亚的一个村庄,要为他预备。As a little girl growing up in the tiny Rwandan village of Mataba, I was taught that America was the land of opportunity.
作为一个在卢旺达小村庄玛塔巴(Mataba)长大的小女孩,我得到的教导是美国是一个充满机遇的国度。You need to get out of your comfort zone and work for one year as volunteer in a village.
你应该走出自己狭小的舒适环境,到一个村庄去一年做义工。This will be at a field station in one of the villages outside Bamako that have a long history of working with the university, he said.
他说,这将在巴科马郊外的一个村庄的实地实验站进行,这个实验站与巴科马大学有长期的合作历史。Before, in my village, there was no school, I was born out in the country, far from the district and I didn't learn how to read and write.
以前,我们村庄里头没有学校,我是出生在乡下地方,离市区很远,没有学过读书写字。Once upon a time, there was an old man living in a small village.
从前,在一个小村庄里住着一位老人。From such a starting point, female emancipation has come a long way, although in the villages women do not look at you as you cycle past.
从这样的起点出发,妇女解放运动已经走了很长的路了,尽管我骑车走过村庄时,女人们还是不会朝我看。