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英语口语练习小对话第290期:火上加油

2013-03-30来源:和谐英语

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迷你对话：

A: I seldom heard the quarreling of her children.

我很少听到她的孩子大吵大闹。

B: Why do you say that?

你为什么这么说？

A: Because her children have been the age when they seem to quarrel all day long.

因为她的孩子正值整天要吵架的年龄。

B: Oh, I see. She told me that she had learned very quickly how to pour oil on troubled water, but not to pour oil on the flame.

哦，我明白了。她告诉我学会了一套调停争端的本事，而不是让事情进一步发展。

A: She is a cleaver mother.

她真是个聪明的母亲。