昨天,乡下的母亲给我来电话,说东京这里怕是用不着棉外褂,让送回乡下去。正赶上管电话的妻子出门了,是大女儿接完电话转告给我的。“什么棉外褂?”女儿问。大女儿和几个妹妹不同,她是在乡下而不是在东京的医院出生的。或许是母亲抱着带大的缘故,母亲的一口家乡话她大体都 Yesterday, the mother of the country called me and said there was no need for a cotton coat in Tokyo to send it back to the country. Is caught up with the wife of the pipe phone to go out, is the eldest daughter took over the phone to tell me. “What cotton gown?” Daughter asked. The eldest daughter, unlike several younger sisters, was born in the country rather than in a Tokyo hospital. Perhaps the mother holding a large reason, her mother’s hometown dialect she generally