Beneath the heavy wooden-buttoned grey wool coat she had worn every winter for as long as I could remember mother lost her balance and tumbled.

• 据我所记得的，每个冬季她都穿的都是一件厚重的、带有木制钮扣的灰色羊毛大衣，结果母亲失去了平衡，向地下跌倒。