我的母亲和父亲都在亚洲长大,当时正处于政治不稳定的时期。他们在踏上美国之前就已经获得了大学学位,但为了维持生计,他们很早就不得不从事卑微的工作。
(Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.)