She gritted her teeth and decided that she would persevere until the summer, and that if she failed to break even by then, she would simply give up. But then she thought that speaking so lightly of giving up was betraying the promise she had made to herself, the HDEP program and society that she would save money, start her own business, and do what it took to make it succeed.
咬牙熬過寒冬的吳秀珠，心想這個夏天如果再做不起來，乾脆放棄，但念頭一轉，又覺得輕言放棄違反當初「儲蓄、創業，自助、人助」的脫貧誓言，對不起自己，也對不起社會。