Which Hand Do You Use?

Which Hand Do You Use? Nine out of ten people in the world are right-handed. That means they use their right hands for doing things such as throwing, catching and writing. But not everyone is right-handed. One person in ten is left-handed. Being left-handed is not a big problem now. But not so long ago in Europe, left-handed people had terrible lives. Everyone believed that left-handed people were evil. If they were caught writing with their left hands, they could be killed. Left-handed children were forced to write with their right hands. They were often beaten until they stopped using their left hands.

你用哪只手? 世界上十分之九的人都是右撇子。 这意味着他们用右手来做诸如投掷、接球和写作等事情。但并不是每个人都是右撇子。十分之一的人是左撇子。 左撇子现在不是什么大问题了。但不久以前，在欧洲，左撇子的生活很糟糕。每个人都相信左撇子是邪恶的。如果他们被发现用左手写字，他们可能会被杀。 左撇子儿童被迫用右手写字。他们经常被殴打，直到他们停止使用左手。

No one wanted to marry left-handed people. It was hard for them to get a job, and they often had no friends. Today, it's still not easy being left-handed. Most things in the world are designed for people who are right-handed. But the way we think about being left-handed has changed. We now know that left-handed kids are just normal kids who prefer using their left hand over their right to get things done.

没有人想和左撇子结婚。他们很难找到工作，而且经常没有朋友。 今天，成为左撇子仍然不容易。世界上大多数东西都是为右撇子设计的。但是我们对左撇子的看法已经改变了。 我们现在知道，左撇子孩子只是普通的孩子，他们更喜欢用左手而不是右手做事。