If you had caught me straight out of college in the halls of the Vermont State House where I was a lobbyist in training and asked me what I was going to do with my life, I would have told you that I'd just passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the Chinese equivalency exam, and I was going to go study law in Beijing, and I was going to improve U.S.-China relations
もし 大学を出たてで バーモント州議会議事堂で ロビイスト見習いをしていた頃の私に 将来について尋ねたら こう答えたでしょう 私は「漢語水平考試」という 中国語の語学検定に合格したので これから北京で法律を学ぶ予定です そして米中関係改善のために働きたいと思っています