在那些日子里,她放开头发,垂下腰间,每当我遇到她的老朋友时,他们都会形容我的母亲就像用腿上的美人鱼。人们想要屏蔽她的皮肤。
(In those days, she let her hair loose, down to her waist, and whenever I met old friends of hers, they would describe my mother as having resembled a mermaid with legs. With a sheerness to her skin that people wanted to shield.)