我很少聽到她的孩子大吵大鬧。
B: Why do you say that?
你為什么這么說?
A: Because her children have been the age when they seem to quarrel all day long.
因為她的孩子正值整天要吵架的年齡。
B: Oh, I see. She told me that she had learned very quickly how to pour oil on troubled water, but not to pour oil on the flame.
哦,我明白了。她告訴我學會了一套調(diào)停爭端的本事,而不是讓事情進一步發(fā)展。
A: She is a cleaver mother.
她真是個聰明的母親。