时间:2019-02-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语访谈对话


英语课

   Adrienne: So, Vivian, you have grandchildren 1!


  Vivian: I have two lovely granddaughters.
  Adrienne: Granddaughters! What's it like being a grandma?
  Vivian: It is a second chance on life because of when you are raising children as a young person you get caught up in the daily world, but with grandchildren it's all fun. I don't have to do this, or I don't have to do that, and when I get tired I can send them home to their parents.
  Adrienne: Right, that's the best part, right? So what else is different about being a mother versus 2 being a grandmother?
  Vivian: Being a mother you are totally responsible 3 for your child. You are trying to raise them the best you know how to raise them and you're young and everything that you do you know that will be picked up by your child but when you have grandchildren that duty is up to their parents so I don't feel that I have to really teach them anything. I have to continue the teaching 4 of their parents.
  Adrienne: So you get to do all the fun stuff 5 now that you're a grandma?
  Vivian: Yes, it really is fun. They take you by the hand, and take you to the store and point out everything in the world that mom and dad will not give them and it really costs you a lot of money sometimes, unless, you do put your foot down and say, ”NO!”
  Adrienne: So being a grandma is more expensive that being a parent?
  Vivian: Absolutely, but it's a lot more fun because at this stage of life you have a little bit more money than you had when you were raising your child.
  Adrienne: I see. That's great.

n.孙子;孙(女),外孙(女)( grandchild的名词复数 )
  • He left a bequest to each of his grandchildren. 他给他的孙辈每人留下一笔遗产。
  • His grandchildren afforded him his greatest pleasure in his old age. 他的孙子和孙女们在晚年的时候给了他最大的欢乐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
prep.以…为对手,对;与…相比之下
  • The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
  • The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
adj.有责任的,应负责的;可靠的,可信赖的;责任重大的;vi.休息,睡;静止,停止
  • He must be responsible to me for this matter.这件事他必须对我负责。
  • The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • 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。
学英语单词
acetphenetidide
Ajuga campylanthoides
Aromadendron
auxiliary boat
aversities
Bacterium ceylonense
ban-the-bombers
beginning of autumn?
belen
biopark
bonding
brassidates
breathing intensity
Buddinge
cahills
Canadian International Development Agency
carpenter moth
cathodic corrosion
Cervus elaphus
chord member of truss
closed frame
complementary transistors
core switch circuit
crown bar foot
derosier
desorption of pesticide
diallelic (atwood 1944)
distance bound
dominicide
egg-cups
equal angle bar
equal diffusion theory
extra-storm surge emergency warning
fast-cut
gastro-omental
gibbs helmholtz equations
goldeyes
GPRS mobility management
headpool
hurriyet
industrial circulating fund
intersymbol error
involucrum alarum
jettison system
kaolin(e)
key stroke verification
labor process
lateral excursion
lhasas
long term prediction
lyric theater
Mandioli, Pulau
manusculpt
Martinborough
materialled
Mazarete
medium heritability
meltableness
non-ionic catalysis
nonenrolled
notochordoma
number to position to voltage converter
nustles
oil heating unit
oligoclonicity
overcrowded
oxygeniferous
paper feeds
paraffinic hydrocarbon
pedroncelli
Pelletier, Pierre Joseph
Ping River
postiling
potential difference of total field
primary jaw crusher
radial deflecting electrode
rechargeability
rigid disc
rudder angle receiver
Rushden
scroll sheet
seismic earth pressure
self invention
SMNV
solenocytes
spindle shield
splitting strength
steam-operated impact hammer
sterilities
supporting stand size
swealed ingot
Sæból
tarpit
theriodonts
total correlation coefficient
TTVM
turn off thyristor
twunt
Unified Threat Management
vacuum-tube oscillator
valid signature
variable frequency speed control