丁克一族

丁克一族 　　Childless Couples 丁克一族 　　dialogue 1 M: what's your opinion about childless couples? Will you choose to have no kids? 你是怎么看待那些不要孩子的夫妻的?你打算要不要孩子。 N: to be honest, I wouldn't. 说实在的，我不打算要孩子。 M: why? Do you have to make a choice now? 为什么?你现在必须做出选择吗? N: not really. But it has puzzled me for a long time. 不是，只是这事已经困扰我很久了。 M: what's the puzzle? 那你到底愁什么呢? N: my husband and I prefer to have no kids, but my mother-in-law is very traditional and wants grandkids. 我和我丈夫打算不要孩子，但是我婆婆很传统，很想抱孙子。 M: oh, I see. I think the older generation tend to think in a different way. 啊，这样啊。我觉得老人们总是和我们想法不太一样。 　　N: yes. It seems she can never accept a childless marriage. We had a fight last night. 是啊，可是我婆婆就是不能理解，为什么结了婚却不要孩子。我们昨天还吵了一架。 M: oh, really? Maybe she is just eager to see her grandchildren. 是吗?也许她只是抱孙心切吧。 N: but it's absolutely our own business to have a child or not. 但是要不要孙子，完全是我们自己的事。 M: definitely. 是啊。 N: you know, I often overhear our neighbor, the young couple, fighting about how to raise their kid and I really don't want kids to spoil our hapoiness. 知道吗?我经常听见我们隔壁那对年轻的夫妻因为教育孩子而争吵。我真不想让孩子影响我们的婚姻幸福。 M: don't worry. I think in most cases, children are the glue that keeps a family together. 不要担心。大多数情况下，孩子还是家庭的粘合剂。 N: I guess you're right. But I still prefer to have no child. 好吧，但是我还是不想要孩子。 M: sure. You can fully enjoy your time together. 好的，那你们就可以好好享受二人世界了。 　　dialogue 2 N: more and more Chinese are marrying foreigners. 越来越多的中国人嫁给了外国人。 S: that's true. But I have a low opinion of those women who go out with foreigners. 是啊，但是我挺鄙视那些和外国人在一起的女人的。 N: oh, why? 啊?为什么啊? S: I think some Chinese wonem marry foreigners for money while others just want to live abroad. There is no true love between them. 我觉得有些人嫁给外国人是为了钱，有些人是为了去国外定居，反正他们之间没有真爱。 N: I wouldn't say that's totally true. I've met many happy intercultural couples. 也不全是吧。我见过很多幸福的跨过夫妻。 S: well, then why aren't there many East-West couples where the man is a Chinese and the woman is a Westerner? 那为什么没有多少夫妻，男方是中国人，女方是外国人呢? N: I guess it's because the Chinese women are more attractive to Western men. 可能是因为中国女人对外国男人更有吸引力吧。 S: or because they are less attractive to to Chinese men. 或者这些女人对中国男人没那么有吸引力吧。