清华武汉籍女生英文演讲：疫情后,我读懂了万众一心

But when I stood at home on the 31st of January, all that was gone. Before I arrived home for the Spring Festival, my parents and I had talked about making sure that we took a really good family photo during the Spring Festival holiday.

新冠病毒之所以有些可怕，是因为对人群的无差异感染，但也不完全是这样。种种证据显示，老年人更易受影响，我不禁担心父母能否挺过来，我们还能不能拍全家福。

The virus we now know as COVID-19 is somehow fearsome partly because it does not discriminate in choosing who it infects. But that is only partly true. All the evidence suggest that it can be merciless to older people, so I was wondering whether my parents would make it and whether we would ever take photos.

“00后”一夜成长，担负责任他们离家那晚，我一直在哭。他们在医院安顿下来之前，我也几乎没有睡。我第一次如此孤单。

When they left home I cried the whole night and I hardly got any sleep before I knew that they had settled down in the hospital. This was the first time in my life that I was all alone.

但我也是有独立的能力的。我会做饭、会洗衣服，当然还会像年轻人一样网购。但我那时意识到没有关爱我的父母，我不知道该怎么生活。

But don't get me wrong: I can be really independent. I can cook, I can do the laundry, and of course like any young Chinese people, I can buy things online. But I had no idea how to live without my caring parents.

他们离家第二天给我打电话问我怎么样。我们视频聊天了。我看到妈妈戴着氧气面罩躺在病床上，爸爸一说话就喘粗气。那时我就意识到，一定得自立。

On their second day away my parents called and asked me how I was. We talked

using FaceTime, and the moment I saw mom lying there with an oxygen mask and my dad could not talk without breathing heavily, I realized that I had to live on my own.

多年来，我父母支撑起来的这个家现在落到了我肩上。我只能照顾好自己，不要让他们治疗的时候为我担心。这也是我第一次意识到自己有多爱他们。这段时间以来，我发现有好多人跟我有类似的经历。

The responsibility for our family that lain on my parents' shoulders for years had now passed onto mine. The only thing I could do is to take care of myself and make sure they wouldn't worry about me when they were having treatment. And this is also the first time that I realized how much I love them. Over days and weeks I discovered there are many others who had experiences similar to mine.

自己发烧，入院“观察”我父母入院后两周，我自己也发烧了，接受了隔离，要医学观察14天。幸好我只是细菌感染，不是新冠肺炎。

About two weeks after my parents went into hospital, I came across a fever and I had to go into quarantine and be put under medical observations for 14 days. Fortunately, my illness turned out to be due to a bacterial infections but not COVID-19.

接受隔离的人们自然都很焦虑。我和其他病人接受隔离时，想到要完全与世隔绝就非常不安，不禁担心自己会不会死在这。

Not surprisingly, those under quarantine were extremely anxious. On the day I and some other patients arrived, some of us felt extremely uneasy about being totally isolated and began to wonder whether this was where we would die.