老外最想聊的100個口語話題（07）：丁克一族

　　Childless Couples 丁克一族

　　dialogue 1

　　M: what's your opinion about childless couples? Will you choose to have no kids?

　　你是怎么看待那些不要孩子的夫妻的?你打算要不要孩子。

　　N: to be honest, I wouldn't.

　　說實在的，我不打算要孩子。

　　M: why? Do you have to make a choice now?

　　為什么?你現(xiàn)在必須做出選擇嗎?

　　N: not really. But it has puzzled me for a long time.

　　不是，只是這事已經(jīng)困擾我很久了。

　　M: what's the puzzle?

　　那你到底愁什么呢?

　　N: my husband and I prefer to have no kids, but my mother-in-law is very traditional and wants grandkids.

　　我和我丈夫打算不要孩子，但是我婆婆很傳統(tǒng)，很想抱孫子。

　　M: oh, I see. I think the older generation tend to think in a different way.

　　啊，這樣啊。我覺得老人們總是和我們想法不太一樣。

　　N: yes. It seems she can never accept a childless marriage. We had a fight last night.

　　是啊，可是我婆婆就是不能理解，為什么結(jié)了婚卻不要孩子。我們昨天還吵了一架。

　　M: oh, really? Maybe she is just eager to see her grandchildren.

　　是嗎?也許她只是抱孫心切吧。

　　N: but it's absolutely our own business to have a child or not.

　　但是要不要孫子，完全是我們自己的事。

　　M: definitely.

　　是啊。

　　N: you know, I often overhear our neighbor, the young couple, fighting about how to raise their kid and I really don't want kids to spoil our hapoiness.

　　知道嗎?我經(jīng)常聽見我們隔壁那對年輕的夫妻因為教育孩子而爭吵。我真不想讓孩子影響我們的婚姻幸福。

　　M: don't worry. I think in most cases, children are the glue that keeps a family together.

　　不要擔心。大多數(shù)情況下，孩子還是家庭的粘合劑。

　　N: I guess you're right. But I still prefer to have no child.

　　好吧，但是我還是不想要孩子。

　　M: sure. You can fully enjoy your time together.

　　好的，那你們就可以好好享受二人世界了。

　　dialogue 2

　　N: more and more Chinese are marrying foreigners.

　　越來越多的中國人嫁給了外國人。

　　S: that's true. But I have a low opinion of those women who go out with foreigners.

　　是啊，但是我挺鄙視那些和外國人在一起的女人的。

　　N: oh, why?

　　啊?為什么啊?

　　S: I think some Chinese wonem marry foreigners for money while others just want to live abroad. There is no true love between them.

　　我覺得有些人嫁給外國人是為了錢，有些人是為了去國外定居，反正他們之間沒有真愛。

　　N: I wouldn't say that's totally true. I've met many happy intercultural couples.

　　也不全是吧。我見過很多幸福的跨過夫妻。

　　S: well, then why aren't there many East-West couples where the man is a Chinese and the woman is a Westerner?

　　那為什么沒有多少夫妻，男方是中國人，女方是外國人呢?

　　N: I guess it's because the Chinese women are more attractive to Western men.

　　可能是因為中國女人對外國男人更有吸引力吧。

　　S: or because they are less attractive to to Chinese men.

　　或者這些女人對中國男人沒那么有吸引力吧。

　　N: what do you mean?

　　怎么說?

　　S: you know, usually the woman is in her thirties and she is a left girl.

　　這些女人大約三十多歲，是剩女。

　　N: a left girl? What's that?

　　剩女?什么意思啊?

　　S: they're called that because they're left behind on the shelf. They're also known by their three H's---high diploma, high salary, and high degree.

　　這么說，因為他們是別人挑剩下的。她們有三高:高文憑，高工資，高學位。

　　N: and they're also known as the three S's—single, stuck, and born in the seventies.

　　還有人說她們有三難:單身，高不成低不就，出生在70年代后。

　　S: definitely! So most of these women go for Western men.

　　的確!所以這些人就把目標轉(zhuǎn)向了外國人。

　　N: you have a point here, but I believe some mixed marriages are based on true love.

　　也許吧。但是有些跨國婚姻還是有真愛的。

　　S: that' for sure but very few.

　　那是，不過很少。