口語式短文：我從哪裡來

Where did I come from：

•  Where did I come from? This is a question I have been curious about ever since I was at younger age.

• 從小到大，我都很好奇我是怎麼來到這個世界上的？

•  I remember when I was younger, Dad fabricated a story once that I was delivered to my family by a stork.

• 我還記得小時候，有一次爸爸編故事說我是被送子鳥送到我家的。

•  But as I gradually grow older, I know that I was born from Mom’s belly.

• 但在我慢慢長大後，我知道我是從媽媽肚子裡生出來的。

•  But why and how was I inside Mom’s belly?

• 可是我為什麼會在媽媽肚子裡呢？

•  From several unclear explanations by Mom and Dad, I probably know the answer to this question.

• 從爸媽幾次不大清楚的解釋中，我大概知道怎麼回事了。

•  It was that a sperm of my Dad met an ovum of my Mom. They joined together to form a zygote which lived in my Mom’s belly.

• 原來是爸爸的精子和媽媽的卵子相遇後，結合成受精卵，住在媽媽的肚子裡。

•  The zygote was the earliest and smallest me. I had lived in a place named womb (or uterus) in Mom’s belly for ten months.

• 受精卵就是我最早、最小的時候，我住在媽媽肚子裡叫做子宮的地方，一共住了十個月。

•  After ten months of pregnancy, Mom gave birth to me. Mom and Dad told me that I was born through caesarean section.

• 媽媽懷胎十月後生下我，聽爸媽說我是剖腹生產的。

•  When I was younger I often had chances to see Mom’s belly scar from the incision for caesarean section. Afterwards the scar gradually faded and finally disappeared.

• 我小時候常有機會看到媽媽肚子上因為開刀生我而留下的那一道疤，後來那道疤慢慢變淡，最後就不見了。

發表時間：2009/08/29 著作人：周國華老師