實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：More Moms 更多家長類型

Todd: Now there's a couple that are kind of, that are not as nice. They can be positive or negative like for example a helicopter parent.

托德：還有一些家長的類型可能不太好。這些形容詞既可以是褒義的也可以是貶義的，比如直升機家長。

Julia: A helicopter parent? What's that?

朱莉婭：直升機家長?那是什么?

Todd: So a helicopter parent is basically a parent that just hovers over their child all the time. They're always worried about their child. They follow them everywhere. They want to know what they're doing at all times and they just worry a lot. They're so worried...

托德：直升機家長是指那些像直升機一樣一直盤旋在孩子上空的家長。他們總是為孩子感到擔心。不管孩子去哪里，他們都會一直跟著。他們隨時都想知道孩子在干什么，他們一直在擔心。因為太擔心了……

Julia: That sounds very stressful.

朱莉婭：那聽起來太有壓力了。

Todd: Yeah.

托德：對。

Julia: As a parent.

朱莉婭：作為家長來說。

Todd: They're always worried their child's going to get hurt or something, you know, or they just are just over-protective, I guess yeah. So are you a helicopter parent?

托德：他們一直擔心孩子會受傷，我想這種家長對孩子有些過度保護了。你屬于直升機家長嗎?

Julia: No, I don't think so, no. No, I'm very happy for my daughter to have independence.

朱莉婭：不是，我想我不是。我希望我的女兒能獨立。

Todd: That's good. That's good. So you don't like, if she goes outside for a few minutes or if she's, you know, you hear some clanging in the next room, you don't go rushing over.

托德：這很好，很好。那如果她在外面待了幾分鐘，或是你聽到隔壁房間有叮叮當當?shù)穆曇簦阋膊粫⒖虥_過去查看情況。

Julia: No. I wait for the tears before I go over.

朱莉婭：不會。她哭了我才會過去。

Todd: Smart, smart. There's, recently because of a very popular book we have, it's called the Tiger Mom.

托德：聰明，這很明智。最近有一本非常受歡迎的書，叫《虎媽》。

Julia: A Tiger Mum?

朱莉婭：虎媽?

Todd: Yeah, Tiger Mom.

托德：對，虎媽。

Julia: Sounds cool. Is it a positive term or is it a negative?

朱莉婭：聽起來很酷。這是褒義還是貶義?

Todd: It is kind of. Actually it comes, the tiger I think comes from the Asian reference. It's like for an Asian mother and it's basically really strict, really driven, like really push your kids, make them study hard, demand good grades, demand that they do extra curricular activities, really push them to have high paying careers or successful careers, do well academically and stuff like that.

托德：嗯……我想老虎這個詞是借鑒了亞洲的說法。在亞洲，虎媽指那種非常嚴厲、非常有動力的媽媽，她們一直在鞭策孩子，讓孩子努力學習，要求孩子必須取得好成績，要求他們做額外的課外活動，鞭策孩子尋求高薪工作或成功的工作，要求他們學業(yè)出色等等。

Julia: From very young, does this...?

朱莉婭：從很小還是……

Todd: Yeah, from very young. The woman who wrote the book, I think it's actually called Tiger Mom and she was a Yale professor and I think she was of Chinese ancestry and she raised these very successful daughters and so she wrote a book and basically saying you need to be strict and push your kids and demand excellence. I think that's what she wrote.

托德：對，從很小開始。寫《虎媽》這本書的女性是耶魯大學的教授，我想她有中國血統(tǒng)，她把女兒們培養(yǎng)得非常出色，所以她寫了這本書，告訴讀者家長要嚴格，要鞭策孩子追求卓越。我想她是要傳達這些。

Julia: Is the tiger, is it reference to like the Chinese horoscope, maybe like the characteristics of the tiger for that year?

朱莉婭：虎是不是中國的生肖，就是屬虎的人的一些特征?

Todd: No. Actually I just think it has to do with being a tiger comes from Asia, I think that's it.

托德：不是，我認為應該就是亞洲的一種老虎。我是這么認為的。

Julia: OK, well a tiger does have a pretty kind of aggressive or driven sort of image.

朱莉婭：好，老虎有時的確給人富于進攻性、有動力的形象。

Todd: Right.

托德：沒錯。

Julia: When a tiger gets something in its sights, you know, like where it comes from.

朱莉婭：尤其是老虎發(fā)現(xiàn)什么的時候，可能這就是這個詞的來源吧。

Todd: Totally.

托德：沒錯。

Julia: No, I'm not so much a tiger mum, no.

朱莉婭：我并不是虎媽。

Todd: So you're a soccer mom.

托德：你是足球媽媽。

Julia: More of a soccer mum I think, yeah.

朱莉婭：我想我更像足球媽媽。

Todd: That's good. Yeah, that's what I would want, a soccer mom.

托德：這很好。我覺得足球媽媽很不錯。

Julia: A soccer mum, yeah.

朱莉婭：嗯，足球媽媽。