" As the only immigrant serving in the United States Senate right now … " Hirono began.

“作为当前在美国参议院任职的唯一一位移民… … ”庆子说道。

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono said that too many Asian Americans and Pacific islanders are being targeted.

夏威夷参议员梅姬·广野表示，太多的亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民成为攻击目标。

In January, when the President hosted a freewheeling, bipartisan meeting on immigration, Hirono confronted Trump directly.

今年1月，总统主持了一场自由讨论移民问题的两党会议，庆子当时就直接质问了特朗普。

Hirono, Hawaii's junior Senator, is an immigrant from Japan and the chamber's sole Buddhist.

刚上任不久的夏威夷参议员广野庆子是来自日本的移民，也是参议院唯一的一名佛教徒。

" I'm plugging away, not fading away, " Hirono says.

“我是在埋头苦干，并不是退场了，”庆子说道。

" In our country, racism is never far below the surface, " Hirono says, sipping a midafternoon coffee.

“在我们国家，种族主义从来都不会隐藏得很深，”庆子一边喝着午后的咖啡，一边说。

Hirono is running for a second term on this November's ballot.

庆子还准备在今年11月选举时竞选连任。

But Hirono is careful to ground her decisions in reality, including those about her health.

但庆子真正做决定的时候，包括做有关她的健康的决定的时候都很谨慎。

On a rain-soaked morning in late April, Mazie Hirono was walking from the U.S. Supreme Court back to her Senate office.

四月下旬一个大雨滂沱的早晨，广野庆子正从美国最高法院返回她的参议院办公室。

At age 70, Hirono has become one of the surprising avatars of what is known among liberals as the Resistance.

现年70岁的庆子已经成了自由党人所熟知的“抵抗力量”的意外典范中的一员。

Hirono has done all this while battling Stage 4 cancer, diagnosed in May 2017.

而这一切都是庆子在与已经进入第四阶段的癌症，2017年5月查出来的，的抗争之下的做所为。

For " a couple of months, " Hirono went into a self-imposed television blackout.

有“几个月”，幸子强迫自己关掉了电视。

That’s why I embrace Buddhism as a way to be respectful of other people’s thoughts and religions, ” said Hirono.

这就是为什么我信奉佛教是一种尊重他人思想和宗教的方式， ” Hirono 说。

Slowly, Hirono started saying in public what she was telling colleagues in private.

慢慢地，庆子开始在公开场合讲那些她原本只私下里对同事们说的话了。

" One person can make a difference, " Hirono says. " My mom changed my life by bringing me to this country."

“一个人也能改变世界，”庆子说：“是我妈妈把我带到这个国家，改变了我的人生。”

Hirono described being born at home in rural Japan, her sister's death from pneumonia because the family didn't have access to hospitals and a childhood spent living paycheck to paycheck.

庆子讲述起自己出生于日本农村，因为家人没有就医的门路，姐姐被肺炎夺去了生命，小时候一家人只能勉强糊口的那段经历。

A savvy legislator, Hirono spent 13 years in the Hawaii statehouse, eight years as the state's lieutenant governor and six years in the U.S. House before winning her U.S. Senate race in 2012.

庆子已经是一名非常老练的议员了，在2012年赢得参议员竞选之前，她曾在夏威夷州议会大厦工作了13年，她先是当了8年的副州长，又当了6年的众议院议员。