聊一聊你的家庭和工作，如何踏上寫作之路的

今天的這段對話，在討論人生的階段，

聊一聊你的家庭和工作，如何踏上寫作之路的

來聽今天的講解:

A: You know, Aiden, I don’t know much about you. Where were you born?

你知道嗎艾登，我不太了解你。你是在哪兒出生的？

B: I was born in London, but I spent most of my childhood in Hong Kong.

我是在倫敦出生，在香港長大。

A: What was your childhood like?

你小時候過的怎么樣？

B: I had a pretty strict upbringing, and my parents and I were always fighting about it.

小時候家教很嚴，那是我經常為這個和我父母對著干。

A: Do you get along with your parents now?

那你現在和父母處的怎么樣了？

B: Oh sure. Once they reached middle age, they became a lot less uptight.

哦，好多了。人近中年，心態(tài)就平和多了。

A: Where did you go to university?

你在哪兒上的大學？

B: 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。后來我從牛津大學畢業(yè)并且拿到了一個有關英國文學的學位。

A: What is your current occupation?

那你現在做什么工作呢？

B: I’m a freelance writer. I write magazine articles and fiction books.

我是個自由撰稿人。給雜志寫點文章，也寫些小說。

A: Did you always know that you wanted to be a writer?

當作家是你一直以來的愿望嗎？

B: 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。后來30歲那年，我覺得自己需要個新鮮的挑戰(zhàn)。

A: How did you start writing?

那你是如何踏上寫作之路的呢？

B: I started writing magazine articles for fun and eventually was asked to write a book, so I was pretty lucky.

起初我只是給雜志寫點小文章，寫著玩。后來就有人請我寫書。其實我挺幸運的。

A: Are you writing a book now?

你手頭上有正在寫的書嗎？

B: Yes, it’s about a group of friends living in a foreign country and all the strange experiences they have.

有的。是一本關于幾個朋友生活在異地他鄉(xiāng)的奇特經歷。

A: Sounds interesting.

聽起來很有意思。