那一年我6岁,妹妹只有3岁。我认为我们需要挣一些钱,于是,我们去拜访我们的邻居,提出为他们打扫房子,开价25美分。虽然我们的提议合情合理,却没有人愿意雇佣我们,一位邻居甚至打电话向母亲“打小报告”。我和妹妹回家后,母亲问道:“你们为什么到邻居家里去告诉他们愿意为他们打扫房子?”事实上,母亲为我们产生那样 That year I was 6 years old, my sister was only 3 years old. I think we need to make some money, so we went to visit our neighbors and offered to clean the house for 25 cents. Although our proposal is plausible, nobody wants to hire us, and one neighbor even called his mother for a “small report.” After my sister and I went home, my mother asked, “Why do you go to the neighbors to tell them they are willing to clean the house for them?” In fact, the mother did that for us