The most affectionate memory of my childhood is about a round table.我兒時的記憶是關于一張圓桌的。

When I was still little, my entire family would reunite on almost every traditional festival to have dinner.當我還小的時候，我們全家會在幾乎每一個傳統節日上團聚。

While the grownups were discussing about something beyond our comprehension, we kids would be scuttling around or even crouching under the table to play hide and seek.彼時，大人們在討論一些我們無法理解的事情，我們小孩則會在追逐嬉戲甚至蹲在桌子下面玩捉迷藏。

When I got a bit older, my aunt brought back her boyfriend, a tall and shy man and my grandma joyfully added another seat to the round
table.當我長大一些，我的姑姑帶回來她的男朋友，一個高高的靦腆的男人，我的奶奶高興地給圓桌又加了一個位置。

It seemed a little bit more crowded, but we all felt closer to this new family member.圓桌似乎變得更擁擠了一些，但我們卻感覺到我們和新家庭成員更親近了。?
When I was twelve.my grandpa passed away because of cancer, but when the entire family reunite once again, his chair his bowl
and his chopsticks remain the same。當我十二歲那年，爺爺因為癌癥去世了，但當我們全家再次團聚時，他的椅子，碗筷仍舊放在原處。

Even though his seat was empty. but it felt like that he had never left us.盡管他的座位是空著的，但這會讓我們覺得他從未離開過我們。

We all have a table like this in our homes.我們每個人家里都有一張這樣的桌子。

It is a symbol of a reunion of our families, representing our sentiment, and an attachment to our families.它是一家人團聚的象征，和與家之間的羈絆。
But as a matter of fact, in China, almost everything can be solved over a round table.但事實上，在中國幾乎所有的事情都可以通過圓桌來解決。

The that marriage bells between a loving couple, the morning of the deceased the negotiations between business partners and a state banquet to another president from other country can all happen on a same round table。一對恩愛的夫妻的婚姻，死了人的早晨，商業伙伴間的談判，以及另一個國家總統間的國宴，都可以在同一個圓桌會議上進行。

So I start to wonder what is this round table to us, what it has
been doing to us and his true significance starts to unfold in front of me.所以我開始思考這個圓桌對我們來說是什么，它對我們做了什么，然后它的真正意義開始在我們面前展示。

The food on the table may change with time.桌上的食物可能隨著時間而改變。

The people sitting beside it may come and go.坐在桌子旁的人可能會來也會走。

The reasons why we come together may be various, but the sensation behind it remains year after year the same.我們走到一起的原因可能是多種多樣的，但是它背后的感覺仍然是年復一年一樣的。

And that is our tolerance of different people our willingness to embrace different culture and artistic forms or care, and love and respect for not only our family but also for a community, our nation and even the whole world.那就是我們對不同的人的寬容或者是接受不同文化和藝術形式的意愿，或者不僅僅是對我們的家庭，也是對一個社區，我們國家，甚至是整個世界的關心，愛與尊重。

In less than two months an annual epic migration would take place in China hundreds of people, men and women young and old, the rich and the poor the dead like my grandpa and the alive.還有不到兩個月的時間，一年一度的史詩般的移民將在中國進行，成千上百的人，男的女的，年輕的年老的，富有的貧窮的，想我爺爺這樣死去的人和活著的人。

We'll find a way to go back home and go to the round table to reunite with their families。我們會找到回家的路，與家人團聚在圓桌旁。

The power that drives them to do so has been the power that has been sustaining Chinese civilization for thousands of years, and the lives of us or even the history of our nation has been the stories of looking for or running to the round table to which we belong.驅使他們這樣做的力量是幾千年來一直支撐著中華文明的力量，我們的生活，甚至是我們國家的歷史都是在尋找或奔向我們所屬的圓桌的故事。

The round table has been a symbol of the Chinese sensation. It was ,it is and will always be.圓桌一直是中國情感的象征。它是，而且它永遠都是。
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作者：仲夏冷霜和資料大全
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