實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Should children be taught about finance? 應該教孩子理財知識嗎?

Christophe: Hello, I am Christophe from Belgium, and this is Aiste from Lithuania. This is the question of the day: Should kids learn about personal finance? Aiste, what is your opinion about that?

克里斯托夫：大家好，我是克里斯托夫，來自比利時，這是艾斯蒂，來自立陶宛，今天的話題是：孩子們應該了解理財知識嗎?艾斯蒂，你怎么看?

Aiste: Well, I think it should definitely learn about personal finance, so my opinion is that any kids shouldn't be given a lot of money, and shouldn't think that money just appears when you go to your mom or dad and say, " I want this. I want that - and - please give me money for that, so if the kid feels that money is a limited thing, I think that's the first step to learn about personal finance. What's your opinion, Christophe?

艾斯蒂：我認為絕對應該了解個人理財知識，我認為不應該給孩子們太多錢，不應該讓孩子們認為要去管父母要錢，比如“我想要這個。我想要那個，請給我錢去買”，如果孩子們感覺錢是有限制的，那就是了解個人理財知識的第一步。你的看法呢，克里斯托夫?

Christophe: Wait! But you told me that when you were a small girl, you went to your daddy and you said 'Daddy, can I have money, please?' and it was all the time like that.

克里斯托夫：等等!可是你跟我說過，你小時候會去向你爸爸要錢，你會說：“爸爸，能給我點兒錢嗎?”而且你一直是那樣做的。

Aiste: Yes, but my amount was kind of limited, and every litas I got, that's the currency in my country, every litas was counted for a certain purpose, so my dad knew exactly that my transportation costs would be two litas and I had five litas for my lunch during the day, and that was it. So it was really ... because I used to go to school for a kind of locked time and I had to eat lunch, and so because he knew that, I couldn't have any extra money that I would use that for for example, if I would need some puzzle, or I would like to go somewhere, I couldn't actually save unless I didn't eat. So the money was actually limited, so I could feel that this was not just get as much as you want.

艾斯蒂：對，不過我的錢是有限制的，我們國家的貨幣是立特，我拿到的每枚立特都有特定的用途，我爸爸清楚地知道我的交通費是2立特，午飯需要5立特，就是這樣。以前我上學有固定的時間，而且我要吃午飯，所以他知道，我沒有多余的錢去干別的事情，即使我想買拼圖，或者我想去其他地方，那我也沒辦法攢錢，除非我不吃飯。所以我的零花錢是有限制的，我能感覺到，并不是你想要多少就能得到多少。

Christophe: So what you're saying is that you learned about personal finance?

克里斯托夫：你的意思是，你學到了個人理財知識?

Aiste: Yes, I think so.

艾斯蒂：對，我想是的。

Christophe: So that's good.

克里斯托夫：那很好。

Aiste: Well, probably.

艾斯蒂：可能吧。