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power struggle 权力斗争
rely on 依靠
parenting lesson 育儿经验
adj. 绝望的，不顾一切的
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- No, you can't have a new bike if you get an "A" on the test.
- 如果你考试不拿A是不会给你买辆新自行车的。
- You should study because you want to do well in school.
- 你应该学习，因为你想在学校好好表现。
- We'll talk about it when I get home tonight. Kids!
- 今晚我回家后再谈论这个话题。 孩子们!
- What's the matter?
- 怎么了?
- My kids won't do anything without an incentive.
- 没有奖励我的孩子不会做任何事情。
- I know it's my own fault for offering rewards for good behavior, but now, all they want to know is what they'll get to do what I ask.
- 我知道为他们的良好表现提供奖励是我自己的错,但是现在他们想知道的是照我的要求他们会得到什么。
- Rewards are okay if you use them sparingly, aren't they?
- 如果你谨慎使用奖励就会是好的,不是吗?
- That's the problem.
- 这就是问题所在。
- I feel like I have to bribe them to do the simplest things.
- 我觉得自己要贿赂他们做些最简单的事情。
- I get home from work and I'm tired and frazzled.
- 我下班回家感到劳累,疲惫不堪。
- I don't want another power struggle so I rely on bribes.
- 我不希望另一个权力斗争,所以我依靠贿赂。
- It's backfired.
- 但恰恰适得其反。
- How do you mean?
- 你什么意思?
- Now my kids won't do anything without knowing what's in it for them.
- 现在我的孩子不会做任何没有利益的事情。
- And they keep upping the ante.
- 而且他们继续加码。
- Soon I'll have to start forking over cash to get them to behave.
- 很快我就得开始为他们的行为支付现金了。
- I don't know what to say.
- 我不知道该说什么。
- When I was growing up, my mother put the fear of God into us.
- 在我像他们那么大的时候,我的母亲总拿上帝吓唬我们。
- We wouldn't dare misbehave for fear of making her angry.
- 我们不敢表现不好,怕她生气。
- We never got rewards for good behavior.
- 我们从未因为良好行为得到奖励。
- It was just expected of us.
- 这只是对我们的期望。
- What's your mother's number?
- 你妈妈的号码是多少?
- Is she available to babysit?
- 她可以帮忙照顾小孩子吗?
- Uh, I don't know.
- 嗯,我不知道。
- I don't think she could inspire that kind of obedience from other people's children.
- 我不认为她能激发别人的孩子有这样的服从感。
- I'm desperate!
- 我感到彻底绝望了!
- At the very least, she can give me a few parenting lessons.
- 至少,她可以给我提供些育儿经验。
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