地道美語(yǔ)聽(tīng)力播客956：悲慘的童年經(jīng)歷

Morris: Congratulations on finishing your latest book. What’s it about?

莫里斯:祝賀你完成一部新書(shū)，寫(xiě)的是關(guān)于什么的?

Toni: It’s about a girl whose parents abandoned her at birth and who ends up living on the streets. She experiences abuse and is put in juvie.

托妮:是寫(xiě)一個(gè)小女孩，剛一出生就被父母拋棄，不得不在露宿街頭。慘遭虐待，然后被收容到少管所了。

Morris: Wow, that sounds heavy. Wasn’t your last book about children whose parents served time in prison and who lived in fear of bullies in their neighborhood?

莫里斯: 啊，真是一個(gè)讓人心情沉重的故事。你上部書(shū)寫(xiě)的不是孩子父母蹲監(jiān)獄了，鄰居們欺負(fù)孩子，孩子整天擔(dān)驚受怕嗎?

Toni: Yes, I wrote that after my first book, which was about a brother and sister who lived in an impoverished home traumatized by events beyond their control.

托妮:是啊，那是我的第二部書(shū)，寫(xiě)的是兄妹倆，一貧如洗，生活不受自己掌控，總是受到傷害。

Morris: Do you ever write about happy childhoods?

莫里斯: 你寫(xiě)沒(méi)寫(xiě)過(guò)些愉快的童年往事?

Toni: I do write about happy childhoods. All of the children and teenagers in my books are very resilient. They are survivors.

托妮:寫(xiě)過(guò)。我寫(xiě)過(guò)的兒童和少年都非常堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，他們是幸存者。

Morris: I was thinking about children who have normal childhoods with two parents living in the suburbs.

莫里斯: 我是說(shuō)那種和父母一起生活在郊區(qū)的，能過(guò)上正常生活的孩子。

Toni: You call that normal? You think they’d be happy? I bet there’s an underbelly of crime and misery in most seemingly perfect families.

托妮:那就是你認(rèn)為的正常生活?你覺(jué)得他們活的開(kāi)心嗎?我相信在多數(shù)看起來(lái)很完美的家庭中，都蘊(yùn)藏著罪惡和痛苦。

Morris: I’ve no doubt that if that were true, you’d be the one to write about it.

莫里斯: 如果那是真的，我毫不懷疑，那一定是你寫(xiě)的。