談論家族英語情景對話

英語情景對話作爲真實生活的交際模式，作爲語言輸出的源頭,作爲語言練習的最佳途徑，作爲語言教授的媒介，它對於把英語作爲外語來學習的學生，扮演着非常重要的角色。下面本站小編爲大家帶來生活英語情景對話，歡迎大家學習!

S: Does your family have a record of your ancestors?

你家有族譜記錄嗎?

N: Sure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. She's always updating it.

當然有。我媽媽這幾年一直在做我們的族譜。她總是在更新。

S: Do you have a copy of your family tree in your house? I'd love to see it.

你的房子裏有這樣一份族譜嗎?我好想看看喔。

N: I can show it to you now, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.

現在我就可以給看你，如果你願意看的話。到目前止，我認爲它可以追溯到8代人。

S: That's amazing. Do you have a large extended family?

太了不起了。你有一個大家庭嗎?

N: I've got 30 cousins on my mom's side and 10 cousins on my dad's side.

在我媽媽這邊，我有30個表兄弟，在我父親這邊，我有10個黨兄弟。

S: Are you very close to your first-cousins?

你跟你的堂兄妹感情好嗎?

N: The ones that are my age are close relatives. Now that I'm older, I don't spend as much time with them as I used to, so I don't know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.

那些跟我年齡相仿的和我很親密。由於我長大了，我不像過去那樣有時間和他們相處，所以比我大和比我小的堂兄妹，我都不是很瞭解了。

S: I see. Who's the head of your household?

我明白了。誰是你們家的領導?

N: It's definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.

當然是我媽媽了。她的媽媽當然也是這個更大的家庭的女家長。

S: That's interesting. What does your grandmother think of your step-mother?

好有意思哦。你奶奶怎麼看待你的繼母?

N: At first, she was quite critical of her, but now that they've been married for a few years, she's starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother.

起先，我奶奶對她很挑剔，但是由於他們已經結婚好幾年了，她就開始接受我父親和母親離婚的事實。

S: That's pretty much how you feel about your step-mother. Like grandmother, like grandson!

那也是你對你繼母的感覺，奶奶和孫子的感受都一樣。

N: Do you think Chinese families have changed much in the last 50 years?

你認爲過去50年中國家庭有很大變化嗎?

S: I think families everywhere have changed a lot in the last 5 decades.

我認爲在過去的50年中任何地方的家庭都有很大改變。

N: What do you think is the biggest change?

你認爲最大的變化是什麼?

S: Well, in the past, three or four generations would all live together under the same roof. Nowadays, living in the same city as one's relatives is becoming rare.

唔，過去，三四代人都住在一個屋檐下。如今，親戚同住一個城市的都變得好少了。

N: That's true. You know, some husbands and wives don't even live in the same city any more.

確實。你知道的，一些夫妻甚至都不住在同一個城市。

S: Would you ever consider having your parents live with you when they get older?

當你父母老了的時候，你考慮過讓他們跟你住嗎?

N: I guess I'm a bit old-fashioned. I'd rather have my parents live with me than live in a retirement home.

我想我有點過時。我寧可讓我的父母跟我住，也不願意讓他們住養老院。

S: That's very respectable, but I could never live with my parents. I usually only see them at our Christmas celebration-and that's enough!

這種行爲讓人肅然起敬，但是我決不會跟父母住。我通常只要在我們的聖誕節慶典上見到他們――這就足夠了!

N: How about your other siblings? Do they spend a lot of time with your parents?

你的其他兄弟姐妹呢?他們跟你父母在一起的時間多嗎?

S: Two of my sisters still live at home, even though they have already graduated from university and have good jobs. They enjoy spending their free time with my parents. I guess in that respect, I'm the black sheep of the family.

我還有兩個姐妹在家裏住，儘管他們已經大學畢業並且有了工作。他們喜歡跟我父母共度閒暇時光。我想在這方面，我是家裏的敗類。

N: I see. Do you parents ever ask you to come home to visit them more often?

我明白了。你父母有沒有叫你更經常一點回去看看他們?

S: They're always asking me to come home, but I think our relationship is better if we keep a distance from each other. Whenever we see each other, all we do is fight.

他們總是叫我回去，但是我認爲我們相互保持距離對我們的關係更好。不論何時我們見到彼此，我們都會吵架。

N: Well, you know what they say. You can choose your friends, but not your family.

唔，你聽人說過這樣一句話吧：你可以選擇你的朋友，但是不能選擇你的家人。