2006年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-The Sweetest Girl Takes on the World

And it is time for StoryCorps on this Friday morning. This oral history project lets you interview someone you love and ask them questions you've always wanted to ask.

My name is Hasiyna Price I'm 15 and I'm here with my cousin Danette Banks.
My name is Danette Angela Banks, I'm 16, and I'm here with my cousin Hasiyna.

These two are friends, neighbors, and cousins. They've been close ever since they can remember. Here Hasiyna talks about having scoliosis and what it's like to feel different at school.

I have like a bump¹ on my back and my spine² is twisted and my arms is a little bit too long for my aaaabody; like, one is longer than the other. But, I don't care what anybody says, because now, I don't care but usually they go around saying humpty-dumpty camel. (Yeah), and stuff³ like that. I know that used to upset you because you would start crying and go in the house.
But I think (I don't) you're very pretty.
I don't care. . thank you.

Why do you go in the house? Because all you're doing is showing them what's getting to you, and they're going to keep doing it constantly because they know it's getting to you.

They don't do it now because I don't let people talk about me no more. I just say, you, you call me hunchback, but I'm the flyest hunchback you know. If you bother me, I'm gonna fight you no matter if I know you or not. Is there anything about me that you wanted to know when never asked me?

Yes, why don't you talk to the boys that want to talk to you? Why don't you like them.

I don't want them to find out about my back and then break up (So? ) with me 'cause of my back. .

Your back is just something you were born with. That don't mean there's anything wrong with you. How would you like to be remembered?

As the sweetest girl, if you don't get on my bad side.
Okay. You little girl.

Danette Banks with her cousin Hasiyna Price at StoryCorps in New York.
Every StoryCorps interview is archived at the Library of Congress⁴, and you could learn how to record yours by going to NPR. org.

Major funding for StoryCorps comes from the Corporation⁵ for Public Broadcasting.
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scoliosis
[7skCli5Eusis]
n.
[医]脊柱侧凸
humpty-dumpty
a character in a nursery⁶ rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) and in the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, who is like a large egg in shape. The rhyme goes: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,/Humpty Dumpty had a great fall./All the King's horses and all the King's men/Couldn't put Humpty together again.
fly a.
very fashionable and attractive
Wear something really fly for your Friday date.
hunchback
an offensive word for someone who has a large raised part on their back because their spine curves in an unusual way

1 bump   

v.（against,into）碰，颠簸；n.碰撞，隆起物

参考例句：

• I heard a bump in the next room.我听到隔壁房间传来“砰”的一声。
• He got a bad bump on his forehead.他碰得前额隆起一个大包。

2 spine   

n.脊柱，脊椎；(动植物的)刺；书脊

参考例句：

• He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.他从马上跌下摔断了脊梁骨。
• His spine developed a slight curve.他的脊柱有点弯曲。

3 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

4 Congress   

n.(代表)大会；(C-:美国等国的)国会，议会

参考例句：

• There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
• After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后，他打算告老还乡。

5 corporation   

n.公司，企业&n.社团，团体

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation. 这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• The inflation did the corporation up. 通货膨胀使这个公司破产了。

6 nursery   

n.托儿所；苗圃

参考例句：

• They have decided to start up a nursery in the factory.他们已决定要在工厂里开办一个托儿所。
• Her company ran its own workplace nursery.她的公司开办了内部的托儿所。