实战口语情景对话 第695期:Future Family 未来家庭

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：你来自一个非常大的家庭，那你所想象的自己的家庭规模和理想生活是什么样的？

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.
卢佩：我喜欢大家庭。我认为这是我生活中最大的恩赐，因为一直会有人支持你。总有可以谈话的家人，理想情况下，我希望有一天我有孩子以后，我的孩子也有十一个或十个可以寻求帮助或是聊天的兄弟姐妹。不过这种情况不会发生。因为我想我不会生太多孩子。我希望生几个孩子就好，我知道我的经济状况很稳定，能满足孩子的需求，他们在成长过程中不会在钱的方面感到艰难，不过如果有一天我成为母亲我希望我能做全职妈妈，因为我妈妈在我的成长过程中一直陪伴我。她就是全职妈妈，每天早上醒来、回家以后都能看到她的感觉非常好，而且我知道无论我们何时有需要她都会帮助我们，不过现在要做全职妈妈比较困难，因为这里的物价很贵，只有一个人上班很难负担开支，我想做全职妈妈，如果经济状况允许的话，我一定会当全职妈妈，不过如果经济状况不允许，我不介意继续工作，即使上班也能成为全职妈妈，我觉得这要取决于有多少个孩子要照顾，还要取决孩子的爸爸，以及我们的经济和情感状况。我希望有幸福的家庭，所以家庭规模其实并不是最大的问题。