1. In 1936, my father married my wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod and they began a family.
Trump的原生家庭非常传统：
2. We had a very traditional family. My father was the power and breadwinner. and my mother was the perfect housewife.
孩子们从小就懂得再小的钱也有价值：
3. we were brought up to know the value of a dollar and to appreciate the importance of hard work
家人彼此间都很亲近：
4. Our family was always close, and to this day they are my closest friends.
Trump的大哥Freddy Trump：
5. Freddy Trump ， the first son, had perhaps the hardest time in our family， my father very much wanted his oldest son in the business, but unfortunately, business just wasn't for Freddy. He went to work with my father reluctantly, and he never had a feel for real estate. He wasn't the kind of guy who could stand up to a killer contractor or negotiate with a rough supplier. Because my father was so strong, there were inevitably confrontations between the two of them. In most cases, Freddy came out on the short end.
Trump 的哥哥Freddy的性格：
6. Handsome , he loved parties and had a great, warm personality and a real zest for life.
Trump的哥哥因自己的人生观不被家人接受而郁闷，年仅43岁就去世了。
7. ， Freddy became discouraged, and he started to drink, and that led to a downward spiral.
8. it's very sad, because he was a wonderful guy who never quite found himself.
Trump终于意识到别人的想法是无关紧要的。
9. it was irrelevant what my father or I thought about what Freddy was doing. What mattered was that he enjoyed it.
Trump打小就对做生意很有兴趣
10. I was drawn to business very much.
11. I stood up to him and he respected that.
12. I sometimes wonder if we'd have gotten along so well if I hadn't been as business-oriented as I am.
父亲对有大学文聘的人充满敬意
13. Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. (bordered on awe 近乎敬畏了。 )
Trump的叔叔： John Trump 的成就
14. John Trump got his Ph.D from MIT and eventually became a full professor of physics and one of the country's great scientists.
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