实战口语情景对话 第517期:Two Cultures 两种文化

Todd: So, Rina, now you are Lebanese (Mm-hm) and you grew up in a very small Canadian town.
托德：丽娜，你是黎巴嫩人（嗯），你是在加拿大一个小城镇里长大的。

Rina: Oh, yes.
丽娜：对。

Todd: So you really have two cultures. What's it like growing up with two cultures?
托德：所以其实你体验了两种文化。在两种文化中成长的感觉怎么样？

Rina: In the beginning it was very hard. My dad was very strict. I wasn't allowed to work. I had to fight to have my first job at 19.
丽娜：开始时非常糟糕。我爸爸非常严厉。他不让我去打工。我不断的争取，然后我在19岁的时候有了第一份工作。

Todd: Wow. At 19.
托德：哇。19岁。

Rina: At 19. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend. I had to fight for that one too, and I had my first boyfriend at 18. Wasn't allowed to go out. First high school dance was grade 11. So, I hated it in the beginning. I was, but now I appreciate it and I know where my parents were coming from.
丽娜：对，19岁。他也不让我交男朋友。当然这方面我也进行了争取，我在18岁时交了第一个男友。可是我爸爸不允许我们外出约会。我在高中跳的第一支舞是在11年级。所以开始时我非常讨厌这种限制。不过现在我很感激，因为我了解了我父母的背景。

Todd: So, it this the standard Lebanese family type culture where daughters are not allowed to work?
托德：那标准的黎巴嫩家庭就是不允许女儿外出打工吗？

Rina: Ah, yeah, my dad had basically believed that if I went out and worked I would, you know, be hit on by guys. It just wasn't a place for his daughter, and typically before, yeah, women don't work. They stay home. They took care of the kids. They, you know, it was a typical patriarchal society and my dad was very, very strict, and I spent a lot of my childhood pushing away my culture because of that.
丽娜：对，我爸爸一直认为，我外出打工会被男孩欺负。那不是他的女儿应该去的地方，而且以前女性是不出去工作的。以前女性都呆在家里照顾孩子。以前是典型的父权社会，我爸爸很严厉，就因为如此，所以我大部分童年时光都在摆脱这种文化。

Todd: And how do you feel about your culture now?
托德：那你现在怎么看待这种文化？

Rina: I'm very, very proud of it. I love it. It's nice to be different and I'm glad I get that chance to do that. Um, the only thing, when I was in Lebanon, it was hard as well because people didn't see me as Canadian, and they didn't see me as Lebanese You know I was, a lot of people didn't talk to me because of it. I went there and a lot of people shunned me basically, so.
丽娜：现在我以这种文化感到自豪。我喜欢这种文化。与众不同感觉很好，而且我很高兴我有机会体验这种文化。我在黎巴嫩的时候，唯一一件让我觉得艰难的事情是，人们既不把我当作加拿大人看，也不把我当黎巴嫩人看，因此有很多人不和我说话。基本上那里的人都会避开我。

Todd: So even though you had no language barrier at all cause you speak Lebanese?
托德：你会说黎巴嫩语，即使你完全没有语言障碍他们也这样吗？

Rina: Yep, yep, no, they basically, you know they were mad at me because I was too Canadian, or they were mad at me that I wasn't enough Canadian, and like, it was just, you know, insane.
丽娜：对，他们生我的气，因为我也是加拿大人，可是他们生我气是因为我不是完全的加拿大人，你知道，很疯狂。

Todd: That's pretty tough.
托德：那真是非常艰难。

Rina: Yeah, well, they have their, they have their image of what you know, what Western society is like from movies and, you know, because you know I have my tattoos, they thought I was just basically Satan's spawn, and because I wasn't running around like a tramp, they thought well, "What is she is doing? What is she supposed to?" it was just the worst of both world's really.
丽娜：对，他们有从电影中看到的西方社会的样貌，因为我有纹身，他们就认为我是撒旦之子，因为我不像游民一样四处行走，他们会想：“她在做什么？她想做什么”这是两种文化中最糟糕的。 Todd: Ah, that's terrible. 托德：是啊，真糟糕。

Rina: Yeah, so because, they do, they have, and actually I have to specify this: I was in a village. Like, both of my parents are from villages.
丽娜：因为……我要明确一下，当时我住在村庄里，我的父母都来自村庄。

Todd: Oh, I see.
托德：哦，我明白了。

Rina: In Beirut, it's different, but when I was in the villages, where I stayed the majority of the time, it was like that, but I got, I made my little older ladies love me, but they were talking to me at the end, having coffee with me while I smoked my cigarettes, yep, yep.
丽娜：在贝鲁特的话情况就会不同，可是因为我住在村庄，我大部分时间都生活在村庄，不过我还是让年龄大些的女士喜欢上了我，后来他们都会和我说话，我们会一边抽烟一边享用咖啡。

Todd: Oh, that's good to hear.
托德：听起来不错。