Then, carrying this "China complex" of his, "themost complicated of any Chinese person's on Earth," back home with him, he "often had to struggle with the modern reality" of "people walking across ground covered in trash and sputum to fight for something to eat, and a bowl of noodles in which the sand crunched as you chewed."
而帶著「世界上最複雜的中國人情結」返鄉，當「必須踩著遍地濃痰跟垃圾去搶東西吃，每一碗麵都咬到響聲清脆的沙粒」，便也要「常常掙扎於這些遜於當年的現實了」。