趣味英语第92期:家人喜欢棒球 我却讨厌棒球怎么办?

Elise macdonald asks...

埃莉斯·麦克唐纳问道：

"My family loves baseball but I hate it. What should I do?"

“我家人喜欢棒球，可是我讨棒球。我应该怎么办？”

You can do two things: divorce¹ your family or divorce baseball.

你可以做两件事：和你的家人分手或是和棒球分手。

Pretend you love baseball.

假装你喜欢棒球。

Just enjoy the time with the family.

享受和家人在一起的时光就好。

Baseball games are fun, so just go for the hot dogs and pretend like you enjoy it.

棒球比赛很有意思，你可以为了热狗去看比赛，假装你很喜欢。

Think about, you know, like popcorn² and things that you can buy at the baseball game, and maybe you'll learn to like it too.

想想爆米花和其它你可以在棒球比赛现场买到的美食，也许你会学着喜欢棒球的。

Let them love it and you enjoy what you enjoy. And when you do family things, do something that everyone can enjoy.

让你的家人去喜欢棒球，而你则去享受你喜欢的事情。当你们进行家庭活动时，要去做所有人都喜欢的事情。

Try not to rain on their parade. But also don't force yourself to do something you don't like.

尽量不要扫了他们的兴。也不要强迫自己去做不喜欢的事情。

I am the expert on this, 'cause I can't stand baseball, but I married into a baseball-fanatic family. And you know what? You just go with it.

我在这方面是专家，因为我不能忍受棒球，不过我和来自棒球狂粉家庭的女孩结了婚。你知道我是怎么做的吗？和他们一起看比赛就好了。

Try to get into it. Try to find your interests. And then try to understand what their interests are so you can use those two and make your own kind of perception³ of baseball.

尝试去喜欢棒球。找到你的兴趣。然后试着去理解他们的兴趣，这样你就能利用这些来塑造你自己对棒球的理解。

It's totally okay to do your own thing and not like baseball. Just tell them that. Don't go to the games. Don't watch it. Just, you know, do what you like.

做你自己的事情完全没问题，不用去喜欢棒球。告诉他们你不喜欢棒球。不用去看比赛。不要看比赛。做你自己喜欢的事情就好。

If you don't want to play baseball, don't play baseball. If you don't want to watch baseball, don't watch baseball.

如果你不想打棒球，那就不要打棒球。如果你不想看棒球比赛，那就不要看。

Tell them another sport that you like. Maybe they'll say, "Oh, sure. You can try that sport. We'll try that sport with you."

告诉他们你喜欢的另一种运动。也许他们会说，“哦，好吧。你可以试试那项运动。我们会和你一起尝试那项运动的。”

If you're playing the sport and you don't like the sport, you should just be honest with your family and just be like, "Yo, I want to play something else."

如果你从事一项运动，可是你不喜欢那项运动，你应该诚实地和家人说，告诉他们，“我想玩其他运动。”

Talk about a different sport and see if they get into it, like soccer or football or... another sport.

谈论其他运动，看看他们是否感兴趣，比如英式足球、美式足球或是其他运动。

1 divorce   

n.离婚；分离；vi.离婚；vt.离婚；脱离

参考例句：

• Did he divorce his wife or did she divorce him?是他要和妻子离婚，还是妻子要和他离婚？
• None of us like the divorce of word and deed.我们都不喜欢言行不一。

2 popcorn   

n.爆米花

参考例句：

• I like to eat popcorn when I am watching TV play at home.当我在家观看电视剧时，喜欢吃爆米花。
• He still stood behind his cash register stuffing his mouth with popcorn.他仍站在收银机后，嘴里塞满了爆米花。

3 perception   

n.感知，感觉，觉察(力)；认识，观念，看法

参考例句：

• What's your perception of the matter?你对此事有什么看法？
• He was a man of keen perception.他是一个感觉敏锐的人。