ESL Podcast 558 – Being a Strict Parent
时间：2019-02-19 作者：英语课 分类：地道美语播客
Allison: I’m almost ready for my granddaughter’s visit. She’ll be here tomorrow and I want everything to be perfect.
Ola: What do you have planned?
Allison: I’m going to spoil her rotten. My daughter is very strict and doesn’t allow her to do anything that a normal 10-year-old wants to do.
Ola: Like what?
Allison: Well, her time is very structured and regimented. She’s never allowed any time for just frivolous 1 fun.
Ola: And you’re taking off the shackles 2.
Allison: That’s right. She can play as much as she wants to for the next week. I don’t want her to miss out on any experiences just because her mother is overprotective. There will be no curfews and no time schedules.
Ola: Are you sure that’s a good idea? I’m sure your daughter has instructions about how your granddaughter should behave and the punishments she should get if she misbehaves.
Allison: You’re right about that. I’m expecting a long list of rules for my granddaughter while she’s here, but she shouldn’t expect me to toe the line. I’m the grandmother after all, so I have special privileges. Nobody tells me what to do with my own granddaughter.
Ola: How did a free spirit like you end up with a daughter who is so uptight 3?
Allison: Beats me.
Ola: She’s not going to thank you for spoiling her daughter, you know.
Allison: I know, but I’m her mother and there’s still a thing or two I can teach her about raising a daughter!
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- This is a frivolous way of attacking the problem.这是一种轻率敷衍的处理问题的方式。
- He spent a lot of his money on frivolous things.他在一些无聊的事上花了好多钱。
- a country struggling to free itself from the shackles of colonialism 为摆脱殖民主义的枷锁而斗争的国家
- The cars of the train are coupled together by shackles. 火车的车厢是用钩链连接起来的。