高中英语 老外最想聊的100个口语话题（07）丁克一族素材.doc

childless couples 丁克一族dialogue 1m: whats your opinion about childless couples? will you choose to have no kids?你是怎么看待那些不要孩子的夫妻的？你打算要不要孩子。n: to be honest, i wouldnt.说实在的，我不打算要孩子。m: why? do you have to make a choice now?为什么？你现在必须做出选择吗？n: not really. but it has puzzled me for a long time.不是，只是这事已经困扰我很久了。m: whats the puzzle?那你到底愁什么呢？n: my husband and i prefer to have no kids, but my mother-in-law is very traditional and wants grandkids.我和我丈夫打算不要孩子，但是我婆婆很传统，很想抱孙子。m: oh, i see. i think the older generation tend to think in a different way.啊，这样啊。我觉得老人们总是和我们想法不太一样。n: yes. it seems she can never accept a childless marriage. we had a fight last night.是啊，可是我婆婆就是不能理解，为什么结了婚却不要孩子。我们昨天还吵了一架。m: oh, really? maybe she is just eager to see her grandchildren.是吗？也许她只是抱孙心切吧。n: but its absolutely our own business to have a child or not.但是要不要孙子，完全是我们自己的事。m: definitely.是啊。n: you know, i often overhear our neighbor, the young couple, fighting about how to raise their kid and i really dont want kids to spoil our hapoiness.知道吗？我经常听见我们隔壁那对年轻的夫妻因为教育孩子而争吵。我真不想让孩子影响我们的婚姻幸福。m: dont worry. i think in most cases, children are the glue that keeps a family together.不要担心。大多数情况下，孩子还是家庭的粘合剂。n: i guess youre right. but i still prefer to have no child.好吧，但是我还是不想要孩子。m: sure. you can fully enjoy your time together.好的，那你们就可以好好享受二人世界了。dialogue 2n: more and more chinese are marrying foreigners.越来越多的中国人嫁给了外国人。s: thats true. but i have a low opinion of those women who go out with foreigners.是啊，但是我挺鄙视那些和外国人在一起的女人的。n: oh, why?啊？为什么啊？s: i think some chinese wonem marry foreigners for money while others just want to live abroad. there is no true love between them.我觉得有些人嫁给外国人是为了钱，有些人是为了去国外定居，反正他们之间没有真爱。n: i wouldnt say thats totally true. ive met many happy intercultural couples.也不全是吧。我见过很多幸福的跨过夫妻。s: well, then why arent there many east-west couples where the man is a chinese and the woman is a westerner?那为什么没有多少夫妻，男方是中国人，女方是外国人呢？n: i guess its because the chinese women are more attractive to western men.可能是因为中国女人对外国男人更有吸引力吧。s: or because they are less attractive to to chinese men.或者这些女人对中国男人没那么有吸引力吧。n: what do you mean?怎么说？s: you know, usually the woman is in her thirties and she is a left girl.这些女人大约三十多岁，是剩女。n: a left girl? whats that?剩女？什么意思啊？s: theyre called that because theyre left behind on the shelf. theyre also known by their three hs-high diploma, high salary, and high degree.这么说，因为他们是别人挑剩下的。她们有三高:高文凭，高工资，高学位。n: and theyre also known as the three sssingle, stuck, and born in the seventies.还有人说她们有三难:单身，高不成低不就，出生在70年代后。s: definitely! so most of these women go for western men.的确！所以这些人就把目标转向了外国人。n: yo