生活英語情景主題: 人生的階段(1)

Emma: You know, Aiden, I don’t know much about you. Where were you born?
愛瑪: 你知道嗎艾登，我不太瞭解你。你是在哪兒出生的？
Aiden: I was born in London, but I spent most of my childhood in Hong Kong.
艾登: 我是在倫敦出生，在香港長大。
E: What was your childhood like?
你小時候過的怎麼樣？
A: I had a pretty strict upbringing, and my parents and I were always fighting about it.
小時候家教很嚴，那是我經常爲這個和我父母對着幹。
E: Do you get along with your parents now?
那你現在和父母處的怎麼樣了？
A: Oh sure. Once they reached middle age, they became a lot less uptight.
哦，好多了。人近中年，心態就平和多了。
E: Where did you go to university?
你在哪兒上的大學？
A: My parents wanted me to stay in Hong Kong, but I decided to go back to England. I graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English literature.
我父母想讓我留在香港，可是我自己決定回英國。後來我從牛津大學畢業並且拿到了一個有關英國文學的學位。
E: what is your current occupation?
那你現在做什麼工作呢？
A: I’m a freelance writer. I write magazine articles and fiction books.
我是個自由撰稿人。給雜誌寫點文章，也寫些小說。
E: Did you always know that you wanted to be a writer?
當作家是你一直以來的願望嗎？
A: Do, I didn’t. I was an English teacher for about five years, but by the time I was 30, I decided I wanted a fresh challenge.
不是。我以前做過5年的英語老師。後來30歲那年，我覺得自己需要個新鮮的挑戰。
E: How did you start writing?
那你是如何踏上寫作之路的呢？
A: I started writing magazine articles for fun and eventually was asked to write a book, so I was pretty lucky.
起初我只是給雜誌寫點小文章，寫着玩。後來就有人請我寫書。其實我挺幸運的。
E: Are you writing a book now?
你手頭上有正在寫的書嗎？
A: Yes, it’s about a group of friends living in a foreign country and all the strange experiences they have.
有的。是一本關於幾個朋友生活在異地他鄉的奇特經歷。
E: Sounds interesting.
聽起來很有意思。