2 Birth and Childhood

Chapter 1 Birth and Childhood From the very beginning, Bruce Lee was constantly in motion. When he was a little boy, he was a bundle of energy. He was always playing, running, or jumping. He bounced around his family's apartment so much that his parents and brothers and sisters nicknamed him "Mo Si Ting," which means "never sits still."

第一章出生与童年从一开始，李小龙就一直处于运动状态。 当他还是个小男孩的时候，他是一个精力充沛的人。 他总是在玩耍、奔跑或跳跃。 他在家里的公寓里跳来跳去，以至于他的父母和兄弟姐妹给他起了个绰号“莫司挺”，意思是“从不坐着不动”。

Bruce was born in Chinatown of San Francisco, California. His given name was Jun Fan. The Chinese custom is to put the "last name" first, so his full name was Lee Jun Fan. Bruce was born on November 27, 1940, in what the Chinese calendar considers the year of the dragon. The Chinese calendar also considers the hour he was born as the hour of the dragon (between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.). So Bruce was sometimes called "the Dragon" or, when he was young, "Little Dragon." The dragon is an important symbol in Chinese culture. It is a sacred creature that brings power and good luck. One of the nurses at the hospital in San Francisco gave Lee Jun Fan his Americanized name, Bruce.

布鲁斯出生在加州旧金山的唐人街。 他的名字叫范俊。 中国人的习惯是把“姓”放在前面，所以他的全名是李俊范。 布鲁斯出生于1940年11月27日，也就是中国农历的龙年。 中国历法也认为他出生的时间是龙的时间（从早上6点到晚上6点）。 上午8点)。所以布鲁斯有时被称为“龙”，或者在他年轻的时候被称为“小龙”。 龙是中国文化中的一个重要象征。 它是一种神圣的生物，能带来力量和好运。 旧金山医院的一名护士给李俊范取了他的美国名字布鲁斯。

Bruce's dad was named Lee Hoi Chuen. He was a well-known actor in a traveling Chinese opera that was in California at the time his son was born. He had also appeared in many movies

布鲁斯的父亲叫李海泉。 他儿子出生时，他是一个著名的中国戏曲演员，在加利福尼亚巡回演出。 他还出演过许多电影

in China. Bruce's mom was Grace Ho. The Lee family included Bruce's older sisters, Phoebe and Agnes, his older brother, Peter, and his younger brother, Robert, who was born in 1948. When he was just a few months old, Bruce and his family returned to Hong Kong, where his parents had been born. His dad's job meant Bruce was around the performing arts at a young age. He loved to go to work with his dad, and he soon appeared in movies himself. He had natural charisma on-screen and was in twenty films as a youngster.

在中国。布鲁斯的妈妈是Grace Ho。 李氏家族包括布鲁斯的姐姐,菲比和艾格尼丝,他的哥哥彼得和他的弟弟罗伯特,他生于1948年。 当他只有几个月大的时候，布鲁斯和他的家人回到了他的父母出生的地方香港。 他父亲的工作意味着布鲁斯在很小的时候就接触了表演艺术。 他喜欢和父亲一起去工作，他很快就自己出演了电影。 他在银幕上有天生的魅力，年轻时就出演了20部电影。

Bruce didn't have quite the same enthusiasm for school, however. He was a smart kid, but he didn't try very hard—or he couldn't sit still long enough to try! When he was twelve years old he entered secondary school. All of his classes were in English. That was a new language for him. At home, his family spoke only Chinese. One day, Bruce's mother got frustrated with his performance in school. She asked him how he ever expected to make a living when he grew up. "I'll become a famous film star one day," Bruce told her in Chinese. Instead of studying, Bruce channeled his boundless energy into fighting. He became mixed up in the gang culture in Hong Kong. He

然而，布鲁斯对学校却没有同样的热情。 他是一个聪明的孩子，但他没有很努力地去尝试，或者他不能坐得足够久去尝试！当他十二岁时，他进入中学。 他所有的课都用英语。 这对他来说是一种新的语言。 在家里，他的家人只说中文。 一天，布鲁斯的母亲对他在学校的表现感到沮丧。 她问他长大后打算如何谋生。 “总有一天我会成为一名著名的电影明星，”布鲁斯用中文对她说。 而不是学习，布鲁斯把他无限的精力投入到战斗中。 他融入了香港的帮派文化。 他

led his own small gang called the Tigers. "From boyhood to adolescence, I was a bit of a troublemaker and was greatly disapproved of by my elders," Bruce admitted later. "I was extremely mischievous and aggressive." Bruce started getting into a lot of fights. One day, when he was about thirteen, he lost a fight and was beat up. He decided he had to learn to protect himself better. So he began to study the martial art called kung fu. CHINATOWNS IN THE MID-1800S, MANY CHINESE IMMIGRANTS SETTLED ON THE WEST COAST IN CITIES SUCH AS SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES. SOME OF THE IMMIGRANTS TRIED TO STRIKE IT RICH DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. OTHERS HELPED BUILD THE FIRST RAILROAD

领导着他自己的小团伙“猛虎” 布鲁斯后来承认：“从童年到青春期，我都有点调皮捣蛋，我的长辈们非常不喜欢我。” “我非常淘气，而且好斗。” 布鲁斯开始经常打架。 大约十三岁的时候，有一天，他打架输了，被人揍了一顿。 他决定他必须学会更好地保护自己。 所以他开始学习一种叫做功夫的武术。 在19世纪中期，许多中国移民定居在西海岸的城市，如旧金山和洛杉矶。 一些移民试图在加利福尼亚淘金热中发财。 其他人帮助修建了第一条铁路