PBS高端访谈:二年级学生在疫情期间的生活

Hari Sreenivasan: As everyone knows, America's children are going to school online these days and how that will affect education is yet to be known¹. But as NewsHour Weekend special correspondent² Karla Murthy reports, classroom social-distancing doesn't have to mean the end of social traditions.

Karla Murthy: This is what second grade class used to look like at this elementary school in New York City. Now, it looks like this.

Teacher: Hi Jason. Good morning sevens.

Karla Murthy: But even now, these second graders have kept up the tradition of sharing their highs and lows at the end of the week, and what they're looking forward to. A rose, a thorn³ and a bud⁴.

Teacher: Are you ready to share? Would you like the share?

Student: Yes! But I only have a rose.

Teacher: That's ok.

Student: Watching Lego Masters with my Dad.

Student: My rose is going to this awesome⁵ sea glass beach on Wednesday. There were like this big sizes of sea glass.

Student: Me and my Dad were building garden beds and shoveling dirt. And I thought that was really fun.

Student: Being able to be with my guinea pigs while doing handwriting.

Student: My rose was Lila's birthday.

Student: My thorn is not being able to see you guys. And yeah.

Student: I'm writing a book about animals, and I have some trouble thinking about stuff⁶ about leopard⁷ frogs.

Student: My thorn is going to see my grandparents. Cuz they have Coronavirus so it's like really hard to see them through a window and not like be able to be there with them.

Student: My bud is making banana bread today.

Student: It's Friday so it's movie night. So me and my sister are going to watch Star Wars.

Student: And I have two buds⁸, Easter and I'm also looking forward to seeing you guys again.

Teacher: Yeah. Same.

哈里·斯里尼瓦桑：如大家所知，美国儿童现在都通过网络在线上课，但这种教学方式对教育的影响暂不可知。根据我台特约记者卡拉·莫西的报道，学生们无法在课堂相遇并不一定意味着社会传统的终结。

卡拉·莫西：纽约市这所小学的二年级学生之前是这样的，但现在是这样的。

老师：嗨，詹森，早上好。

卡拉·莫西：但即便是现在，这些二年级的学生依然保持着在每周尾声分享起起落落的传统，也会表达自己的期待——一朵玫瑰、一根刺、一个蓓蕾。

老师：你愿意分享一下嘛？你喜欢这次分享嘛？

学生：愿意！但我只有一朵玫瑰。

老师：没关系的。

学生：我跟爸爸一起看了《乐高大师》。

学生：我心中的玫瑰就是能在周三去这个绝妙的海玻璃海滩，那里有这么大个儿的海玻璃。

学生：我和爸爸在打造花坛并铲土，特别有趣。

学生：练书法的时候，能跟豚鼠待在一起。

学生：我心中的玫瑰是利拉的生日。

学生：我心里的那颗刺是没法见到你们大家，对，就是这样。

学生：我在写一本关于动物的书，在想到与豹蛙有关的内容时，我遇到了困难。

学生：我心里的那颗刺是很难见到我的祖父母。因为我的祖父母都患了新冠，很难通过窗户看清他们，也没法陪在他们身边。

学生：今天，我心中的蓓蕾是制作香蕉面包。

学生：今天是周五，是看电影的日子。我和我妹妹要看《星球大战》。

学生：我心里有2个蓓蕾，我也很期待再次见到你们大家。

老师：是啊，我也想见大家。

1 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

2 correspondent   

n.记者，通信者；adj.符合的，一致的，相当的

参考例句：

• He volunteered as a correspondent for the war.他自愿担任作报道这次战争的记者。
• The result was correspondent with my wishes.结果与我的愿望是一致的。

3 thorn   

n.刺，荆棘，带刺小灌木

参考例句：

• The little boy stepped on a sharp thorn.那小男孩踩着了一根尖刺。
• The dog had a thorn in its pad.这只狗的爪垫上扎了根刺。

4 bud   

vi.发芽，萌芽；n.芽，花蕾

参考例句：

• Some flowers bud their leaves very early in spring.有些花在春季里很早发出叶来。
• A bad habit in a child should be nipped in the bud.应该尽早把孩子的坏习惯改过来。

5 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

6 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

7 leopard   

n.豹

参考例句：

• I saw a man in a leopard skin yesterday.我昨天看见一个穿着豹皮的男人。
• The leopard's skin is marked with black spots.豹皮上有黑色斑点。

8 buds   

芽( bud的名词复数 )； 苞； 半开的花； 未长大的叶

参考例句：

• the first buds appearing in spring 春天的初芽
• Willow trees breaking out into buds foretell the coming of spring. 柳枝绽青报春来。