美語情景對話 第250期:Childhood 孩童時期

Todd: Lois, actually how old are you Lois?

託德：洛伊絲，你今年多大了？

Lois: I'm 25.

洛伊絲：我25歲。

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

託德：哦，25歲，那你還有幼兒時期的記憶嗎？有關小時候你最早的記憶是什麼？

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 bottom of the hill, fell over, ice cream all over me, and I don't think I got another ice cream after that.

洛伊絲：嗯，我孩童時期的記憶很模糊。我記得的事情並不多，不過我的確記得一件事。可能是我只有3、4歲的時候，我不太確定，當時我和家人還有祖父母一起去度假，我在吃冰激凌，我想爬到山頂去，可是我的父母卻說，“不行，不，不行。你吃完冰激凌才能繼續爬”，我說，“不要，我現在就要繼續爬山”，所以我爬到了山頂。那並不是一座小山，我當時很小，我想從山上快速跑下去肯定很棒，於是我就這麼做了，我跑到了山腳，然後摔倒了，冰激凌灑了我一身，我想那之後我就沒再吃過冰激凌。

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

託德：那很有意思，還有其他小時候的記憶嗎？

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

洛伊絲：我還記得我擺弄坐在嬰兒車裏的弟弟，導致他從嬰兒車裏掉了下來摔傷了頭部，流了好多血。我想我可能惹了很大的麻煩。

Todd: Oh! So you have a younger brother?

託德：哦！你有個弟弟嗎？

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

洛伊絲：我有個弟弟，還有個哥哥。

Todd: Oh, OK.

託德：哦，好的。

Lois: So I'm the middle child, which is not always good because when we used 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.

洛伊絲：我是中間的孩子，通常來說這不太好，因爲我們去度假的時候，我的兄弟們經常在車裏打鬧，所以我不得不坐在他們中間，在他們打架的時候我可以阻止他們，所以我不喜歡當中間的孩子。

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

託德：嗯，我想你幫了父母不少忙。

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.

洛伊絲：嗯，希望是吧，不過現在我哥哥已經27歲了，弟弟也已經23歲，可是他們仍然經常吵鬧，實際上我並沒能阻止他們。

重點講解：
1. fall over
摔倒；跌倒；倒下；
eg. If he drinks more than two glasses of wine he falls over.
如果他喝酒超過兩杯，就會醉倒。
eg. He pretended to fall over.
他假裝跌倒。
2. push around
把…差來遣去；擺佈；使喚；
eg. We don't like somebody coming in with lots of money and trying to push people around.
我們不想有人拿着很多錢加入，試圖到處使喚人。
eg. Nobody can push him around.
沒有人可以對他肆意擺佈。
3. used to do sth.
過去常常；過去曾做某事；
eg. He used to be a pilot but now he has a desk job .
他曾是飛行員，但現在做辦公室工作。
eg. I used to get up early and take an hour's walk before breakfast.
我過去常常起牀很早並且在早餐前散步一小時。