实战口语情景对话 第250期:Childhood 孩童时期

 Todd: Lois, actually how old are you Lois? 

托德：洛伊丝，你今年多大了？

Lois: I'm 25. 

洛伊丝：我25岁。

Todd: OK, 25, so, do you have any early childhood¹ memories? What's the earliest thing you can remember from Childhood? 

托德：哦，25岁，那你还有幼儿时期的记忆吗？有关小时候你最早的记忆是什么？

Lois: Uh, my memories from my childhood aren't very good. I can't remeber that much, but I do remember one thing. I must have only been about 3 or 4, I'm not sure, and I was on holiday with my family, and my grandparents and I had an ice cream and I wanted to climb to the top of this hill, and my parentes were like," No, No, No. Wait until you finish your ice cream, and then you can go" and I was like, "Nope, I'm going to go now" so I climbed to the top of the hill. It was only a small hill, I was only little and then I dediced it would be great to run down the hill really fast, which I did, and I ran to the bottom² of the hill, fell over, ice cream all over me, and I don't think I got another ice cream after that. 

洛伊丝：嗯，我孩童时期的记忆很模糊。我记得的事情并不多，不过我的确记得一件事。可能是我只有3、4岁的时候，我不太确定，当时我和家人还有祖父母一起去度假，我在吃冰激凌，我想爬到山顶去，可是我的父母却说，“不行，不，不行。你吃完冰激凌才能继续爬”，我说，“不要，我现在就要继续爬山”，所以我爬到了山顶。那并不是一座小山，我当时很小，我想从山上快速跑下去肯定很棒，于是我就这么做了，我跑到了山脚，然后摔倒了，冰激凌洒了我一身，我想那之后我就没再吃过冰激凌。

Todd: Oh that's funny, and other memories from childhood. 

托德：那很有意思，还有其他小时候的记忆吗？

Lois: I think I also remember pushing my brothers around in my brother's pram³ and him falling out and banging⁴ his head and there being⁵ lots of blood. I think I might have got is a lot of trouble for that one. 

洛伊丝：我还记得我摆弄坐在婴儿车里的弟弟，导致他从婴儿车里掉了下来摔伤了头部，流了好多血。我想我可能惹了很大的麻烦。

Todd: Oh! So you have a younger brother? 

托德：哦！你有个弟弟吗？

Lois: I have a younger brother and I have an older brother. 

洛伊丝：我有个弟弟，还有个哥哥。

Todd: Oh, OK. 

托德：哦，好的。

Lois: So I'm the middle child, which is not always good because when we used⁶ to go on holiday my brothers would always fight in the car, so I always had to sit in the middle of them so if they were fighting I could stop the fighting, so I didn't like being the middle child. 

洛伊丝：我是中间的孩子，通常来说这不太好，因为我们去度假的时候，我的兄弟们经常在车里打闹，所以我不得不坐在他们中间，在他们打架的时候我可以阻止他们，所以我不喜欢当中间的孩子。

Todd: Well, I sure you served a good purpose for your parents. 

托德：嗯，我想你帮了父母不少忙。 Lois: Well, I hope so, but still my brothers are now 27 and 23 and they still fight now, so I didn't actually manage to stop that. 

洛伊丝：嗯，希望是吧，不过现在我哥哥已经27岁了，弟弟也已经23岁，可是他们仍然经常吵闹，实际上我并没能阻止他们。

1 childhood   

n.孩童时；童年时代

参考例句：

• She looks as if she got back to her childhood again.她似乎又回到了她的童年时代。
• The photo calls up the story of my childhood.这张照片使我想起童年时代。

2 bottom   

n.底部;屁股，臀部；adj.底部的

参考例句：

• The bottom of the cup is broken.这杯子的底破了。
• The channel must have a flat bottom.沟道的底要平。

3 pram   

n.婴儿车，童车

参考例句：

• She sat the baby up in the pram. 她把孩子放在婴儿车里坐着。
• She ran in chase of the pram. 她跑着追那婴儿车。

4 banging   

vt.猛击，猛撞（bang的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• The baby was banging the table with his spoon. 小宝宝用调羹敲打着桌子。
• Stop banging around, children, Father is trying to sleep. 孩子们，别到处乱敲！爸爸想睡觉。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 being   

n.存在；生存；生命存在，生命，人， 本质；art.在，有，是

参考例句：

• Can you explain to me the purpose of being?你能对我解释一下存在的目的吗？
• What is the purpose of our being?我们生存的目的是什么？

6 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。