英文原版对话1000个:1224 More Moms
时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个
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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.
Julia: A helicopter parent? What's that?
Todd: So a helicopter parent is basically a parent that just hovers 1 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...
Julia: That sounds very stressful.
Todd: Yeah.
Julia: As a parent.
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?
Julia: No, I don't think so, no. No, I'm very happy for my daughter to have independence.
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.
Julia: No. I wait for the tears before I go over.
Todd: Smart, smart. There's, recently because of a very popular book we have, it's called the Tiger Mom.
Julia: A Tiger Mum?
Todd: Yeah, Tiger Mom.
Julia: Sounds cool. Is it a positive term or is it a negative?
Todd: It is kind of. Actually it comes, the tiger I think comes from the Asian reference 2. 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 3 activities, really push them to have high paying careers or successful careers, do well academically and stuff like that.
Julia: From very young, does this...?
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 4 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 5. I think that's what she wrote.
Julia: Is the tiger, is it reference to like the Chinese horoscope, maybe like the characteristics of the tiger for that year?
Todd: No. Actually I just think it has to do with being a tiger comes from Asia, I think that's it.
Julia: OK, well a tiger does have a pretty kind of aggressive or driven sort of image.
Todd: Right.
Julia: When a tiger gets something in its sights, you know, like where it comes from.
Todd: Totally.
Julia: No, I'm not so much a tiger mum, no.
Todd: So you're a soccer mom?
Julia: More of a soccer mum I think, yeah.
Todd: That's good. Yeah, that's what I would want, a soccer mom.
Julia: A soccer mum, yeah.
1 hovers
鸟( hover的第三人称单数 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫
- A hawk hovers in the sky. 一只老鹰在天空盘旋。
- A hen hovers her chicks. 一只母鸡在孵小鸡。
2 reference
n.提到,说到,暗示,查看,查阅
- We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
- I like to have my reference books within my reach.我喜欢把参考书放到伸手可取的地方。
3 curricular
课程的
- She's involved in many extra-curricular activities . 她参加了许多课外活动。
- She's involved in many extra-curricular activities, such as music, sport and drama. 她参加了许多课外活动,如音乐、运动、戏剧。
4 ancestry
n.祖先,家世
- Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
- He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。
5 excellence
n.优秀,杰出,(pl.)优点,美德
- His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
- My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。
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