實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Future Family 未來家庭

Kara: So, coming from such a large family, again, what do you imagine for yourself as far as family size and your ideal lifestyle?

卡拉：你來自一個非常大的家庭，那你所想象的自己的家庭規(guī)模和理想生活是什么樣的?

Lupe: I love having a big family. I think that is the biggest blessing in my life because there's always someone there for you. You can always talk to someone and ideally I would love it one day I had children and they had, you know, eleven or ten siblings to go to when they need help or when they just simply want to talk. That's really not gonna happen. You know, I don't think I'm gonna have many children. I would love to have enough children that I know I can actually be financially stable enough that my kids will have what they need, and they won't have to struggle when they're growing up because of money situations, but I would love to be a mom one day, and I would love to be a stay-at-home mom at that because growing up, I always had my mom there with us. She was a stay-at-home mom and it was great to wake up and have her there and come home and have her there and really to know she's there whenever we needed her, and now it's a little more difficult just because it's really expensive you know to live here and it's hard to have just one of the parents working, so ideally I would love to be a stay-at-home mom, and if it's financially possible, I would definitely do that, but if it's not then, you know, I wouldn't mind still working and, you know, still being a full-time mom even if you are working, but I think it all depends on how many kids I have and obviously the person that I have my children with and how we are as far as money and even emotionally. We want to have a good family so the size is really not gonna be the biggest issue.

盧佩：我喜歡大家庭。我認為這是我生活中最大的恩賜，因為一直會有人支持你。總有可以談話的家人，理想情況下，我希望有一天我有孩子以后，我的孩子也有十一個或十個可以尋求幫助或是聊天的兄弟姐妹。不過這種情況不會發(fā)生。因為我想我不會生太多孩子。我希望生幾個孩子就好，我知道我的經濟狀況很穩(wěn)定，能滿足孩子的需求，他們在成長過程中不會在錢的方面感到艱難，不過如果有一天我成為母親我希望我能做全職媽媽，因為我媽媽在我的成長過程中一直陪伴我。她就是全職媽媽，每天早上醒來、回家以后都能看到她的感覺非常好，而且我知道無論我們何時有需要她都會幫助我們，不過現(xiàn)在要做全職媽媽比較困難，因為這里的物價很貴，只有一個人上班很難負擔開支，我想做全職媽媽，如果經濟狀況允許的話，我一定會當全職媽媽，不過如果經濟狀況不允許，我不介意繼續(xù)工作，即使上班也能成為全職媽媽，我覺得這要取決于有多少個孩子要照顧，還要取決孩子的爸爸，以及我們的經濟和情感狀況。我希望有幸福的家庭，所以家庭規(guī)模其實并不是最大的問題。