"Tom, son, you wanted to talk to me. Remember, I have to work（使工作） today, so I don't have much time." "Yes, I know that, but I don't know. I'm not sure I can tell you this." "Well, you will have to hurry（赶紧） up, because I will be late for a meeting. Come on." "That's the thing. You're always busy. It's Sunday, but you have to work. Anyway（ 不管怎样）, I can't believe you're telling me this.

  You perfectly（理想地） know why I have to work（使工作） hard." "No, dad. I mean, I thought I knew, but I don't anymore（再也不）. Why?" "How do you think we can pay for all these things? This luxury（奢侈） house, the new car, the school? It costs a lot of money. We have talked about this topic many times. Don't you remember?" "Yeah, I know we have a lot of things. We have money.

  In fact, I think we have too much money." "And that's the thing. Why don't we go on vacation together as a family?" "We do that. We go on vacation once（一旦） a year, usually in December. Wait for it." "No, I mean, why don't we just go together as a family when we travel? You work anyway." "I think you don't understand. I will explain it to you. Pay attention（注意）."

  "Your dad hasn't always been a rich man. In fact, I was really poor when I was a child." "I was born in a poor family. It was a huge（巨大的） family. We were seven brothers and two sisters." "Our house was nothing compared to this one. We lived in a very small and poor house." "It was an old house. The walls were made of wood（木材） and the ceiling（天花板） was falling apart（相隔）." "It was dangerous to live there, but we didn't have any other option（[计] 选项） since（因为） we didn't have money to move."

  "Despite（不管） all that, your mother worked（使工作） hard so we can have something to eat every day." "She had to sell a lot of things, food, flowers, toys（玩具）, many things. Life was not easy back then." "When I was your age, I had to start working. I got a job selling food on the beach."