I Don't Get to Live the Life of a Seventeen Year Old我过不了17岁该有的生活

绘◎那 仁

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I don't get to live the life of a seventeen year old.My mom is always working and I have a sixyear-old brother. So I have to do everything that a mother would do. I take him to kindergarten①kindergarten 英 ['kɪndə,gɑːt(ə)n] 美 ['kɪndɚɡɑrtn] n. 幼儿园；幼稚园,pick him up, feed him, clean up after him. I don't get to take breaks. I can't play sports after school.I can't get extra tutoring②tutoring 英 [ˈtju:tə(r)ɪŋ] 美 [tutɚ(r)ɪŋ] v. 辅导；教导（tutor的现在分词）n. 辅导. But it's not my mom's fault. She's trying to save money for me to go to college. And she tells me every day that I'm a wonderful daughter. But it's been very diffi cult for me. The only good thing is that I can understand adult problems already. I don't take anything for granted and I know that life is not easy. It seems like my friends aren't even studying to get knowledge. They're studying to get an allowance③allowance 英 [ə'laʊəns] 美 [ə'laʊəns] n. 津贴，零用钱；允许；限额. So I think I'm more mature than my friends. But at some point I would like some time to take care of myself. Or maybe even have someone take care of me for a change.

我过不了17岁该有的生活。我母亲总是忙于工作，我还有个6岁的弟弟，所以我得做一个母亲要做的事。我带他去幼儿园，接他，喂他，完了还要打扫。我都顾不上休息。放学后我不能去做运动，也得不到额外的辅导。但这不是我母亲的错，她在努力省钱好让我去上大学。她每天都跟我说我是个很棒的女儿，但这对我来说很难，唯一的好处是我已经能够理解成年人的问题了。我不会认为有哪些事是理所当然的，我知道生活不易。似乎我朋友都不是为了获取知识而学习，他们学习是为了拿到零用钱，所以我觉得自己比大多数朋友更成熟。但有时我想有些时间来照顾自己，或者有没有可能有人来照顾我一下。