词汇大师:我比你大一分钟(1/2)

英语自学网

2012021463546091_787_o10.jpg

本篇讲述了双胞胎的秘密，一起来听听吧
TIPS

2012021463748544_295_o10.gif

本篇对话中，主持人的对话不需要听写，只需听写嘉宾的话
主持人对话①"Like 'You're a minute older.'"
主持人对话①"So it still made a difference."
hints
Harriet Beecher Stowe

sub_410.gif

戳节目订阅，掌握节目最新动态。

btn_listen1974110.gif

"I talked to quite a number of twins. One of the things that really amused me, every set of twins that I talked to, they knew who was older and they talked about it."
"It might be three minutes older. It might be five minutes older. Now, in cultures where the hierarchy by age is taken very seriously, even more so than in American culture, that was very important.
"So, for example, I spoke to a Korean woman who was an identical twin. She had an older sister and a younger sister, and here were these identical twins in the middle. But because it was a Korean family, everything was ordered according to age.
"So her mother called, every week, called her four daughters starting with the oldest, going down, so she had to know which of the twins was older in order to know what order to call those kids."
"It made a difference. And I was also amused -- I'm the youngest of three sisters, and I think there's a lot of ways that the oldest gets privileged as well as gets a lot more responsibility, and again I saw that especially in more traditional cultures. But as the youngest I was very aware of some privileges that come with the oldest. I love this quote from Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The first child is pure poetry, the rest are prose.'"