Also, while we were at the table, there was a ritual in our family: when something significant had happened for any one of us -- whether mom had just been elected as the president of the PTA, or whether dad had gotten an assignment at the college of our denomination, or whether someone had won the jabberwocky contest for talent -- the ritual at the family was, once the announcement is made,
また 食事中 私たち家族には決まりごとがありました 家族の誰かに何か特別なことがあったら 例えば母がPTAで委員長に選ばれる とか 父が私たちの宗派の 大学での仕事に呼ばれる とか 兄弟の誰かが 詩の朗読コンテストで優勝したなど そういった発表があったとき 私たちはその対象者のために