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生活英语情景口语:大家族 Dialogue 情景对话1 S: Does your family have a record of your ancestors?你家有族谱记录吗？ N: Sure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. Shes always updating it.当然有。我妈妈这几年一直在做我们的族谱。她总是在更新。 S: Do you have a copy of your family tree in your house? Id love to see it.你的房子里有这样一份族谱吗？我好想看看喔。 N: I can show it to you now, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.现在我就可以给看你，如果你愿意看的话。到目前止，我认为它可以追溯到8代人。 S: Thats amazing. Do you have a large extended family?太了不起了。你有一个大家庭吗？ N: Ive got 30 cousins on my moms side and 10 cousins on my dads side.在我妈妈这边，我有30个表兄弟，在我父亲这边，我有10个党兄弟。 S: Are you very close to your first-cousins?你跟你的堂兄妹感情好吗？ N: The ones that are my age are close relatives. Now that Im older, I dont spend as much time with them as I used to, so I dont know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.那些跟我年龄相仿的和我很亲密。由于我长大了，我不像过去那样有时间和他们相处，所以比我大和比我小的堂兄妹，我都不是很了解了。 S: I see. Whos the head of your household?我明白了。谁是你们家的领导？ N: Its definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.当然是我妈妈了。她的妈妈当然也是这个更大的家庭的女家长。 S: Thats interesting. What does your grandmother think of your step-mother？好有意思哦。你奶奶怎么看待你的继母？ N: At first, she was quite critical of her, but now that theyve been married for a few years, shes starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother.起先，我奶奶对她很挑剔，但是由于他们已经结婚好几年了，她就开始接受我父亲和母亲离婚的事实。 S: Thats pretty much how you feel about your step-mother. Like grandmother, like grandson!那也是你对你继母的感觉，奶奶和孙子的感受都一样。 Dialogue 情景对话2 N: Do you think Chinese families have changed much in the last 50 years?你认为过去50年中国家庭有很大变化吗？ S: I think families everywhere have changed a lot in the last 5 decades.我认为在过去的50年中任何地方的家庭都有很大改变。 N: What do you think is the biggest change?你认为最大的变化是什么？ S: Well, in the past, three or four generations would all live together under the same roof. Nowadays, living in the same city as ones relatives is becoming rare.唔，过去，三四代人都住在一个屋檐下。如今，亲戚同住一个城市的都变得好少了。 N: Thats true. You know, so