摘要
我的儿子乔伊出生时，他的双脚向内弯着．医生向我们保证说经过治疗，小乔伊可以像常人一样走路，但不可能像常人一样跑步。乔伊3岁之前一直在接受治疗，和支架、石膏模子打交道。当他8岁的时候，他走路的样子已让人看不出他的腿有过毛病。邻居的小孩子们做游戏的时候总是跑过来跑过去．乔伊看到他们玩就会马上加进去跑啊闹的。我们从不告诉他不能像别的孩子那样跑，所以他不知道。
My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally--but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight,you wouldn＇t know he had a problem when you saw him walk. The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he prob- ably wouldn ＇ t be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn＇ t know.
