100岁加拿大奶奶为啥“跟党走”？她一句话说透了！
当被问及建党百年中国最大的变化时，柯马凯幽默地调侃道 ：“我只有70岁，所以我自己无法回顾过去100年。”话锋一转，他接着说道，但我母亲伊莎白·柯鲁克（Isabel Crook）已经100多岁了。根据她告诉我的情况来看，上个世纪中国最大的变化是：“和平取代了战争”。
柯马凯父母的爱情故事与中国共产党的历史交织在一起。
说到柯马凯的母亲，中华人民共和国“友谊勋章”的获得者伊莎白，很多人并不陌生，她对中国的深情跨越了一个世纪。
1915年，柯马凯的母亲伊莎白出生于中国四川成都的一个加拿大传教士家庭，在中国度过了自己的童年和少女时代。成年后，伊莎白前往加拿大多伦多大学专攻心理学，23岁在加拿大获得硕士学位后回到中国，并开始在四川省阿坝藏族羌族自治州东南部的理县进行实地考察。
柯马凯的父亲大卫·柯鲁克（David Crook），是一位英国共产党。红军彪炳人类史册的二万五千里长征故事，深深地吸引了这位大洋彼岸的有志青年。
“他（我的父亲）读了埃德加·斯诺《红星照耀中国》一书中关于中国共产党的英雄壮举以及长征等故事后，就迷上了中国。” When he read Edgar Snow's account in Red Star Over China about the heroic feats of the Communist Party of China and the Long March and so on, he became fascinated by China.
书中斯诺记载的一切，让大卫·柯鲁克心向往之。“所以1938年他来到了中国，也立即爱上了中国。”
So in 1938, he came to China. He immediately fell in love with China.
在讲到父亲与中国的故事时，柯马凯顿了一下，他笑着补充道：“（父亲）不只是爱上了中国，他还遇到了我的母亲，爱上了我的母亲。”
Well, not just with China, but he met my mother. He fell in love with my mother.
伊莎白(右)和丈夫大卫在河北省进行社会调查
上世纪40年代初，大卫·柯鲁克在成都遇到了伊莎白，共同的志趣让他们俩很快坠入爱河。
在大卫的影响下，伊莎白变成了支持革命的共产主义者，两人于1942年结为夫妻。
柯马凯回忆称，伊莎白和大卫二人一直对中国保持兴趣，尤其是对共产党的治国方法。
战后他们回到中国，研究共产党领导下的土地改革。
But after the war, they came back to China to study Land Reform under the communists.
1947年，伊莎白和大卫对中共解放区的土地改革进行调查研究。夫妻俩在河北武安县十里店村深入考察，他们以“解剖麻雀”的精神，在十里店住了6个月，与农民同甘共苦，真实地记录下中国新民主主义革命的一个重要阶段。
1948年，应中国共产党邀请，伊莎白留在南海山中央外事学校（北京外国语大学前身）任教。
他们受邀留在中国教英语，为新中国的成立做准备。我觉得他们为自己能够为这一伟大发展作出贡献而感到自豪。
They were invited to stay in China to teach English in preparation for the founding of the People's Republic of China. So, I think they felt proud that they were able to contribute to this great development.
From what my mom tells me, is that China was beset with nonstop wars from the warlord-led Beiyang government (1912-28) to the Agrarian Revolutionary War (1927-37) to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45) to the War of Liberation (1946-49).
And then, when the People's Republic of China was set up, no more wars in China.
对于柯马凯这一代而言，中国共产党带来了发展：
我在北京出生。现在已经70岁了。我快速算了一下，我在北京待了大约50年，但并不是连续的。我发现我离开过中国很多次，但我总是回到北京。 I was born in Beijing. And now, I turned 70 this year, but I've done a quick reckoning. I've spent about 50 years in Beijing, but it's not continuous. I find that I have left China many times, but I keep coming back to Beijing.
北京有一种奇妙的吸引力。我想也许我一直来北京的原因之一是北京在不断变化，而我总是想知道接下来会发生什么。 Well, there's a wonderful draw. I think maybe one of the reasons I keep coming to Beijing is that it is changing constantly. And I always wanna know what's gonna happen next.
Yes, well, obviously, the way I see it is that China has changed from 'a sick man of the East,' to a powerhouse and world economy, and also into a power for creating, I think, a more peaceful, harmonious world.
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近百年来，西方大国一直是主导势力。他们的军事活动遍布全球各地，建了数百个军事基地。中国的崛起被视为对他们世界主导地位的威胁。 And for the last couple of 100 years, the Western powers, especially, have been the dominant powers. They have a military presence all over the entire globe with hundreds of military bases. And, I think that the rise of China is perceived as a threat to their world dominance.
我认为，（中国）被当成对西方主导地位的威胁，就是西方媒体给出这些歪曲中国所作所为报道的原因。 I think that the perceived threat to Western dominance is the reason why where there's Western media that gives these reports which distort what China is doing.
China has not sent any militaries to Africa, to Europe, to South America, and so on; China has had a lot of involvement in, for example, Africa, but it's not conflict. It's building bridges and roads and sending medical teams to help with and so on.
And I think that anyone who reviews what the Chinese communists have accomplished in leading China to build a better society that I think that they should just say, 'Well done! Go China! Keep it up! And not only make China a better place, help to make the world a better place.'
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