写给牙套的一封信：牙套，你快把我折磨疯了

牙套，你把我气疯了

(By Hana Jang)

（哈娜·詹）

Dear Retainers,

亲爱的牙套：

Why are you torturing me? I thought you were supposed to be keeping my teeth straight with the benefit of no braces ! Yet I wake up every morning to see that my overbite is slowly coming back and the rows of teeth aren't aligned . Do you have any idea what I went through to get you? Now I don't think you're even helping me anymore.

你为什么要折磨我？你原本以为你可以让我的牙不用牙箍就能竖直整齐了！可是我每天早上醒来却只看到我牙齿的覆咬合部分在慢慢变回老样子，而上下两排牙却仍然对不齐。你可知道我花了多大工夫才把你装上？可现在，我觉得你对我半点用处都没有。

First of all, I wasted two precious years of my life waiting for your arrival. Those braces were murder on my teeth. You didn't experience the pain I had to go through! Almost every week, I replaced my old wires, got a tighter one with a chain of rubber bands, and an additional two rubber bands to fix my overbite. By getting braces, I had the "wonderful" opportunity to choose from a wide variety of soups. The categories stretched from tomato soup to clam chowder to delicious mushroom soup. For two years, 104 weeks, 728 days, soup became more than 90 percent of my diet. What do I have to show for my sacrifice? The object in repayment for my hurt is a hunk of plastic that doesn't really aid me in any way.

首先，