But I was lucky enough to have a career as a music teacher
但我很幸运, 有一个音乐教师的事业
Plants of learning must be watered with the rain of tears.
知识的幼苗要用泪雨来浇灌。
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.