英文原版对话1000个:844 New Outlook

Fred: Hi, Sabriya. This is almost the end of the year, so tell me, how was your year 2007?

Sabriya: My year was quite interesting. I learned a lot. I've experienced a lot.

Fred: You've experienced a lot. What have you experienced?

Sabriya: I've tried new things. Things that I have not done before. I've tried different jobs.

Fred: What kind of jobs have you tried?

Sabriya: I've tried working with children, actually, this year and it's been amazing. It's just been the best experience ever.

Fred: What was it exactly that you did when you were working with children?

Sabriya: Basically, it was in a... it's not a rehabilitation¹ center, but it was a center for disabled children, and basically what we do is we spend the day with them and attend classes with them and just play with them, talk to them, interact² with them during the day.

Fred: Wow, that's really great. So you did some voluntary activities.

Sabriya: Yes. Yes. I did for the first time.

Fred: Wow, that's really cool.

Sabriya: It was quite an experience because I was quite scared at first. I wasn't to sure how to treat them. I wasn't to sure what exactly I should do, but the instructors³ were very nice and they explained that, you know, you just have to be yourself and treat them like any other children, and that's how they want to be treated - just like normal children, and that's what I tried my best to do.

Fred: Wow, so you must have learned so much, and you became a more responsible, mature adult.

Sabriya: Yes, it did. It changed me in that terms because I become more patient than before. Before, I mean, I used to be quite stubborn⁴ and I used to irrationally⁵ make decisions, but after this I calmed down and I always questioned myself before doing something, so I think in that way I completely changed.

Fred: Could you say that what you've learned through your experiences of working with children has also helped you in other parts of your life?

Sabriya: I think the whole getting a patient side has helped me in many terms because it's made me think for example, when I want study or when I want to take classes, I always ask myself, should I do this? Should I do that? Should I go here? So, I don't think like that, so it's just a matter of thinking ten times before I decide anything.

Fred: OK, well you know I feel that I can learn a lot from you and maybe I should do the same thing to become a more responsible person, too.

Sabriya: You should. I'd advise you to. Working with disabled children is nothing like anything else. It's amazing. You should. You should.
 

1 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

2 interact   

vi.相互作用，相互影响，互通信息

参考例句：

• All things are interrelated and interact on each other.一切事物互相联系并相互作用。
• The policeman advised the criminal to interact with the police.警察劝罪犯与警方合作。

3 instructors   

指导者，教师( instructor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
• He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份，被邀请到主席台上。

4 stubborn   

adj.难以移动，去除的，固执的，顽固的

参考例句：

• I can not cope with that boy;he is stubborn.我对付不了那个孩子，他很固执。
• When he's in his stubborn mood,he isn't easily talked round.他那股牛劲上来了，一时不容易说服。

5 irrationally   

ad.不理性地

参考例句：

• They reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power. 他们对俄军的挑衅做出了很不理智的反应。
• The market is irrationally, right? 市场的走势是不是有点失去了理性？