续写 英汉双版本 爱丽丝·门罗《荨麻》 Alice Munro "Nettles"(2)

I haven't forgotten my two daughters. In my bumpy life experience, I have paid a due but unbearable price for my choice. Although I respect their choice of life path, whether it is to embrace tradition or to build a new one, I always believe in them. But parents can't sit back and watch them put every piece of advice together and verify it on the ground, and then choose to start over halfway through life, so I often tell them, “You can be the friend of anyone, but you only make friends with the most respectable of them; you can battle with anything, but the only way to make peace is to make peace with yourself.”