地道美語聽力播客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，寫的是關(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:是寫一個小女孩，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，真是一個讓人心情沉重的故事。你上部書寫的不是孩子父母蹲監(jiān)獄了，鄰居們欺負孩子，孩子整天擔驚受怕嗎?

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，寫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: 你寫沒寫過些愉快的童年往事?

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

托妮:寫過。我寫過的兒童和少年都非常堅強，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: 我是說那種和父母一起生活在郊區(qū)的，能過上正常生活的孩子。

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:那就是你認為的正常生活?你覺得他們活的開心嗎?我相信在多數(shù)看起來很完美的家庭中，都蘊藏著罪惡和痛苦。

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，那一定是你寫的。