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一、 Y: 杨锐??中央电视台英语频道“对话”节目主持人?? H: 何其莘教授??北京外国语大学副校长?? D: Donald Holder ??北大附中外籍教师?? Y: What do Eastern and Western family education share in shaping a childs mind and character? Y:东方和西方家庭教育分享在塑造孩子的人的心灵和品格? H: Parental guidance is probably the first thing. Both the east and west emphasize the quality of family life. Usually parents are the first teachers for a child. A child very often imitates the parents and he is likely to regard whatever the parents do as positive. H:父母的指导可能是第一件事。东方和西方都强调家庭生活的质量。通常父母为孩子的第一任老师。一个孩子经常模仿父母和他可能认为不管父母做积极的。 D: I agree with Prof. He. It seems that in both families whether its east or west, the child is the center and becomes the focus of the parents hopes and dreams. And on both sides we also have this idea of putting pressure on the child. Especially in China, that pressure becomes even more apparent. Americans... sometimes its a little more subtle in this side. But both sides share that a child is 医生:我同意教授他。看来在这两个家庭无论是东方还是西方,孩子是中心,成为关注的父母的希望和梦想。和在双方我们也有这个想法的孩子施压。尤其是在中国,这种压力变得更加明显。美国人…有时候这是一个小更微妙的在这一边。但双方分享这一个孩子 what carries the family to next generation and is the base for the improvement of a family. 什么携带家人下一代的基础,是提高一个家庭。 Y: Parents sometimes have moments of embarrassment with their children, for example, what do you think is the most reasonable way of answering childrens questions such as how they were born and why their parents sleep together while putting them in their own rooms? Y:父母有时有尴尬的时刻与他们的孩子,例如,你认为什么是最合理的方式回答孩子的问题,比如他们如何出生和为什么他们的父母睡在一起而使他们在他们自己的房间吗? D: In America because we have so many different religions and cultures that at present everybody has their own taboos and about what to do. Every family and culture has its own definition of sexual morality. Some parents are very frank, theyll tell the child from a very early age when they start questioning about sex. D:在美国,因为我们有这么多不同的宗教和文化,目前每个人都有他们自己的禁忌和对要做什么。每个家庭和文化都有自己的定义“性道德”。一些父母非常坦率,他们会告诉孩子们从很小的时候当他们开始询问关于性。 Y: How is sex education conducted in a typical American sc