我的父亲身患哮喘和支气管炎,失业一年多之后,到1944年7月才找到一个在建筑工地当领班的工作。他负责的第一项工程是维修塔尔萨附近的一栋旧宅第,那是根据一份遗嘱留给俄克拉荷马州政府的。改建工程进行两个星期后,他忧心忡忡地回了家。“出什么事儿了?”妈妈问。“根据遗嘱,如果到11月份的最后一天没有维修好这栋宅第,俄克拉荷马州将失去这份房产。”我父亲解释 My father, who was suffering from asthma and bronchitis, did not find a job as a foreman on a construction site until after more than a year of unemployment until July 1944. His first project was to repair an old house near Tulsa, which was left to the Oklahoma state government on the basis of a will. Two weeks after the renovation project, he was distressed home. “What happened?” “Mom asked. ”According to the will, Oklahoma will lose this property if it is not repaired on the last day of November.“ ”My father explained