Given her self-disciplined, resolute personality, she never talked about these circumstances in front of her students. Even Hu, who didn't know much Chinese and had never experienced the mayhem of war, would not be able to understand the heartbreaking experience of returning to a home long gone.
個性內斂、堅毅的她，從來沒有在學生面前談過這些事；即使說了，不諳中文、從未經歷戰亂流離的胡玲，恐怕也難以體會老一代「還鄉須斷腸」的痛苦。