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(shuō)實(shí)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(jué)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(jiàn)我們隔壁那對(duì)年輕的夫妻因?yàn)榻逃⒆佣鵂?zhēng)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(dān)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(lái)越多的中國(guó)人嫁給了外國(guó)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(guó)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(jué)得有些人嫁給外國(guó)人是為了錢，有些人是為了去國(guó)外定居，反正他們之間沒(méi)有真愛(ài)。

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

也不全是吧。我見(jiàn)過(guò)很多幸福的跨過(guò)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(méi)有多少夫妻，男方是中國(guó)人，女方是外國(guó)人呢?

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

可能是因?yàn)橹袊?guó)女人對(duì)外國(guó)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(duì)中國(guó)男人沒(méi)那么有吸引力吧。

N: what do you mean?

怎么說(shuō)?

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(shuō)，因?yàn)樗麄兪莿e人挑剩下的。她們有三高:高文憑，高工資，高學(xué)位。

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

還有人說(shuō)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(biāo)轉(zhuǎn)向了外國(guó)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(guó)婚姻還是有真愛(ài)的。

S: that' for sure but very few.

那是，不過(guò)很少。