【英语趣味课堂】谈论家庭-Talking about Family

Brett: Hi, Senum, how are you?

 

Senum: Good, thank you Brett. How are you?

 

Brett: Very good. So let's talk about family today.

 

Senum: Alrighty then.

 

Brett: So, how large is your family?

 

Senum:Well, actually, I'm an only child, but I have a very large extended¹ family.

 

Brett:What ethnicity?

 

Senum: I'm actualy, my families Turkish.

 

Brett: Really!

 

Senum: Yeah. We're all like, my family immigrated² from Turkey about 20 years ago so we all came down to Turkey, and I was born in Australia actually, and I have a lot of family in Turkey, as well as Australia now.

 

Brett: Do you still practice Turkish customs³?

 

Senum: Of course.

 

Brett: Even though you're living in Australia.

 

Senum: Definitely⁴. We always have Turkish meals, do Turkey, celebrate Turkish days,and.

 

Brett: Like what kind of Turkish days?

 

Senum: For example we have Children's Day, and we celebrate that, where the children actually go to the elderly⁵, the elder members of their families, and they go visit them, and they actually receive some money. 

 

Brett: Really.

 

Senum: It's quite interesting. Yeah.

 

Brett: Ah, what other holidays do you celebrate?

 

Senum: Um, also we celebrate, it's called Lolliday.

 

Brett: Lolliday.

 

Senum: Yeah, and we just, the whole name of it is, once again to go to the elderly and to see them and to tell them that we care about them still, and that we are still thinking⁶ of them, though we don't see them probably every other day. How about you Brett? How many people are in your family?

 

Brett: I'm, I have one younger brother and just my mom and dad.

 

Senum: I see, and how about your extended family?

 

Brett: Extended family? I have a lot of extended family, on both sides. It's too many to count, really so.

 

Senum: So do you get together like on the weekends or anything like that?

 

Brett: Ah, recent, yeah sometimes. My uncle has a very nice place that has a pool and all my cousins go out there every weekend and have a lot, usually a barbeque.

 

Senum: Oh, sounds so cool. I pretty much do the same. We always try to organize some barbeques, some things like that, but, down by the beach, or at the parks, and we get together, a whole bunch⁷ of people, about 20 to 30 people, have lots of meat.

 

Brett: Lots of meat.

 

Senum: Yeah. We kids go running around everywhere.

1 extended   

adj.延伸的；伸展的；延长的；扩大的v.延伸(extend的过去式和过去分词)；伸展；延长

参考例句：

• an extended lunch hour 延长了的午餐时间
• France has greatly extended its influence in world affairs. 在世界事务中，法国的影响已大大地扩大了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 immigrated   

v.移入( immigrate的过去式和过去分词 )；移民

参考例句：

• He immigrated from Ulster in 1848. 他1848年从阿尔斯特移民到这里。 来自辞典例句
• Many Pakistanis have immigrated to Britain. 许多巴基斯坦人移居到了英国。 来自辞典例句

3 customs   

n.海关，关税

参考例句：

• The customs officials turned the man over to the French police.海关官员把那个人移交给了法国警察。
• They are collecting customs.他们正在收缴关税。

4 definitely   

adv.一定地，肯定地；明确地，确切地

参考例句：

• The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛，这个队肯定会输。
• I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前，我一定回家。

5 elderly   

adj.年老的；年龄相当大的

参考例句：

• He is getting elderly.他逐渐变老了。
• The elderly man is quite energetic.这位上了年纪的老人仍精力充沛。

6 thinking   

n.思考，思想；adj.思考的，有理性的；vbl.想，思考

参考例句：

• All thinking men will protest against it.凡是有思想的人都会抗议这件事。
• Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的。

7 bunch   

n.串，束；群，帮

参考例句：

• A bunch of girls was[were] sitting on the grass.一群女孩坐在草地上。
• I received a bunch of flowers yesterday.昨天我收到了一束鲜花。