I Wanna Talk-My Son 我的儿子

I want to talk about my son. My son is now one year and eight months old, has brought enormous happiness to our family although my wife, my parent-in-laws always complain about how tiring it is to look after him. He is really cute and adorable. He can now speak some very simple words such as papa, mama, but he can understand quite a lot of things although he can’t, cannot express himself verbally¹, for example, he can recognise the personal belongings² of each family members (member), such as my T-shirt, the eye-glasses (glasses) of grandpa or my wife’s bag, etc. He also firmly protects his own personal belongings, such as his little chair on which he sits for meals. He will drive you away if you attempt to sit on his chair.

I am always amazed how fast he can learn things and how good his memory is. He can instantly learn something (some) funny gestures on TV programmes, for example we found out that as he walked, he kicked his legs and feet tied, and then we recalled it was because he watched the national parade in Tiananmen Square on the National Day. And he also learnt some gestures like kung-fu after watching the gymnastics in sports programmes. I always believe that parents are the first and best teachers for children. I have a lot of friends, also new parent (parents), they bought, they pay for their kids’ very expensive course – some pre-school course (courses). I believe that you need to nurture³ and brought (bring) up your children with your heart and love, so every weekend, my wife and I will take him to parks because I live very close to the zoo, the Guangzhou Zoo so I often take him to the Zoo and show him the animals. He always loves that - watching all kinds of animals. I also want to do some experiments. I want to see how children learn language so I try to teach him bilingually (in a bilingual way), so I teach him to say some words in English and then in Mandarin⁴. And now he can understand quite a lot of instructions, for example, if I ask him, ‘where is your bike?’ and he’ll run to his bike and show his bike. And if I ask him, ‘where is the moon?’ and then he will point his finger up into (to) the sky so I think he is quite funny. And I also hope that if he can learn English at a very young age and he will not suffer too much when he studies at school. I think a child can bring enormous happiness to the family and to my life. I now always feel joy and peaceful while I am with him, so my favourite time-killing is to play with him after meal, after work so I always can forget all about the frustrations⁵ and sometimes unhappiness in work and feel fully⁶ 'recharged'. I have now learnt strong family values after bringing up my son and I understand how difficult it is to be (a) parent so I now try to call my parents whenever I have the time, take them out to dinner or try to visit them during the weekends…erm, so I think it’s great to be (a) parent.

 

1 verbally   

ad.用文字地；口头上

参考例句：

• The company had received complaints both verbally and in writing. 这家公司收到了口头和书面的投诉。
• He verbally laced into his son for his misbehaviour. 他严厉斥责儿子的行为不端。

2 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

3 nurture   

n.养育，照顾，教育；滋养，营养品；vt.养育，给与营养物，教养，扶持

参考例句：

• The tree grows well in his nurture.在他的培育下这棵树长得很好。
• The two sisters had received very different nurture.这俩个姊妹接受过极不同的教育。

4 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

5 frustrations   

挫折( frustration的名词复数 )； 失败； 挫败； 失意

参考例句：

• The temptation would grow to take out our frustrations on Saigon. 由于我们遭到挫折而要同西贡算帐的引诱力会增加。
• Aspirations will be raised, but so will frustrations. 人们会产生种种憧憬，但是种种挫折也会随之而来。

6 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。