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我说你们大家想不想看点特别有趣的东西 Hey, you guys want to see something funny?
哦 如果又是你掀起自己衣服 Oh, if this is where you lift your shirt up.
露出肚脐眼跳肚皮舞那套 还是算了吧 And make your belly button sing... no, thank you.
比那还要好呢 给你们看看我给小查莉剪的视频呀 Even better. Check out this video I made of Charlie.
做个宝宝真不爽 Being a baby stinks.
食物总是太糊太糙又太稀了 Food's too mushy, gross and too juicy,
还有大人们给我看的电视节目都很粗鲁无礼 And the tv shows they make me watch are insulting.
啊 这下好多了 Ahh, much better.
生活真美好 Life is good.
完
儿子 你一定要把这段上传到网上给你们外婆看看 P.J., you are gonna have to put that online so grandma can see it.
外婆会上网的啊 Grandma knows how to go online?
儿子 你得把这刻成光碟 P.J., you're gonna have to put that on a DVD
寄给外婆看 So grandma can watch it.
外婆有光碟播放机吗 Grandma got a DVD. Player?
好吧 儿子 你亲自去趟外婆家 Okay, P.J., you're just gonna have to go over to grandma's house.
把这放给外婆看吧 And act it out for her.
好 念这句 图书馆在哪儿 Okay, where is the library?
（注：法语音节）
突苏馆在哪哎 Donde esta la libraria?
哈哈 你说卷舌儿话音节时真是好迷人 Okay, you're really cute when you roll your rs,
（注：西班牙语音节）
可应该这样念 比不里泰卡 But it's "Biblioteca."
比不利泰卡 Biblioteca.
不过再念一次“突苏馆”给我听吧 But say "Libraria" Again.
突苏苏馆馆馆儿 儿 儿 Libraria.
你这样念真是让我好有感觉呀 Your rrrs make me all Mmm.
对了 我要问你点事 Hey, listen, I want to ask you something.
唔 听上去很有意思 是什么呢 Ooh, that sounds interesting. What is it?
那个嘛 Well...
盖比 打扰一下 Gabe, do you mind?
没关系 你们可以留在这儿 No, you can stay.
我们还是上楼去吧 Let's go upstairs.
好主意 我本来想叫你们走的 Good idea. I was gonna say something,
不过不想显得没礼貌而已 But I didn't want to be rude.
好了 现在可以告诉我是什么事了吧 Okay, now what did you want to ask me?
我想问你 I was wondering if...
你真是太让我丢脸了 It was embarrassing.
我只是问个很简单的问题呀 It was a simple question.
你爸隔了两个通道对我喊 Your father shouts at me from two aisles away,
喂 艾米 你想选什么样的厕纸啊 "Hey, ames, what kind of toilet paper you like...
两层纸面还是超多层纸面的 Quilted or super-quilted?"
嘿 快看 斯宾塞来做客了 Hey, look, Spencer's here.
所以呢 全世界并不知道 So what, the world doesn't know.
伟大的艾米·邓肯也会使用厕纸呀 That the great Amy Duncan uses toilet paper?
邓肯先生 邓肯太太 见到你们很高兴 Nice to see you, Mr. And Mrs. Duncan.
你那么大喊了一通后 居然还是拿错了我们要的种类 After all that shouting, you got the wrong kind.
因为我本来就不是厕纸通灵大师 Well, that's because I'm not Bob the toilet paper psychic.
还是去那边吧 Right this way.
好吧 破罐子破摔 Well, on the bright side,
你也拿错了垃圾袋 You got the wrong trash bags too.
我替我父母道歉了 Sorry about my parents.
哇 我好像常常替他们道歉 Wow, I say that a lot.
那我想问你的是 So what I wanted to ask you was...
我要抓住你咯 我一定会抓住你 I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!
抓住了 抓住了 Yes, I am. Yes, I am.
要抓住了 Yes, I am.
好了 我们还是去屋外吧 Okay, let's go outside.
他要抓住她还早得很呢 It usually takes him a while to get her.
行了 我想我已经甩掉所有的家庭成员了 Okay, I think I'm all out of family members,
不过你最好还是快点讲完 But you'd better talk fast.
行 我是想说 Okay, I was wondering.
你在礼拜五能不能穿上我的橄榄球球衣呢 If you would wear my football Jersey on Friday.
这是球队选手女朋友们的一个惯例 It's sort of a tradition that the players' girlfriends.
要在比赛日穿着队员男友的球衣去 Wear their jerseys on game day.
那这样意思就是说我已经是你的 So that would make me.
女朋友了吗 Your girlfriend?
对呀 Yeah.
太好了 Cool
因为我还不是很确定我们的关系到底是怎样 Because I wasn't exactly sure of our status.
而且我又好紧张怕去问你 And I was too nervous to ask.
我不想成为那种没水准的女生 And I didn't want to be one of those girls.
非要逼着你说出来 不过话说回来 That made you talk about it. But then again...
那你是答应穿球衣了吧 So that's a yes on the Jersey?
当然啦 我的男友 Of course it's a yes, boyfriend.
我要回商店去 Back to the store,
把那正确的超级多层厕纸给换回来 Where the correct answer was super-quilted!
哇 太强大了 查莉的那个视频火起来了 Whoa, this is amazing. That Charlie video has gone viral.
啥叫火起来了 What does that mean?
自从上星期二以来 已经有百万人次的点击率了 That it's gotten a million hits since last Tuesday.
现在我再回答你接下来的问题 And now I'll answer your next question.
那意思就是有一百万的人已经看过我们家查莉了 That means over a million people have seen it.
所以你是把那视频发到“脸酷”上去了么 So what, you put that on the FaceTube?
（注：老爸把Facebook和YouTube搞混了）
说的好 老爸 就是“脸酷”啊 Yeah, that's right, dad... the FaceTube.
我要上电视啰 I'm gonna be on tv.
啥 What?
有线新闻八台刚才打电话来了 The Channel 8 News just called.
因为那视频在全世界网络上传播开了 And now that this video is allver the Internet,
他们想给“臭屁宝宝查莉”一家做一个详细追踪报道 They want to do an exclusive on the "Farty Charlie" family.
那不是我们全体都要上电视了 So we're all gonna be on tv
对 我就是想告诉你们来着 That's what I meant.
这边是我们家的起居室 And this is our family room.
你们家什么来着 Your family what?
起居室儿儿呀 Our family rrroom.
这里真是安静祥和呀 Oh, it's so nice and peaceful here.
对呀 这房子很大 但是只有我爸妈和我三口人住 Well, it's a big house and it's just me, mom and dad.
天 太美好了 Oh, how wonderful.
爸妈 她是泰迪 Mom, dad, this is Teddy.
您好 很高兴认识你们 华尔士先生和太太 Hi, nice to meet you, Mr. And Mrs. Walsh.
别客气 我是琳达 我先生保罗 Oh, please, I'm Linda. This is Paul.
斯宾塞老是不停口的跟我们说起你 Spencer has told us so much about you.
你比他讲的还要漂亮多了 You're even prettier than he said.
爸爸快别说了 Dad, stop.
哎呀不要紧的 我一点不介意被人家说漂亮 Oh, no, it's okay. I don't mind being pretty.
对了 斯宾塞 趁我没忘跟你说呀 Oh, Spence, before I forget,
你妈妈今天在商场做了件特可爱的事 Your mom did the cutest thing in the store today.
她指着一个形状像爱心的茄子 She pointed out an eggplant in the shape of a heart.
说那让她想起了我 And said it remded her of me.
我说的是真的呀 Well, it did.
他们一定和我家爸妈不在一个商场买东西 They must shop at a different store than my parents.
好了 等我赶快放下这些东西给你们俩孩子弄些小零食吃 Well, let me put these away and I'll fix you kids a quick snack.
哦 那吉他真是很漂亮 Oh, that's a beautiful guitar.
哎呀 谢谢你 这是我们上次去西班牙旅行时我买来的 Oh, thank you. I picked this up on our last trip to Spain.
我可以弹奏给你们听吗 Do you mind if I play?
请便 No, go ahead.
我习惯了 我那老哥 成天都弹吉他的而且他弹的啊 Yeah, my brother... he plays guitar and he...
从来没这么好听过 哦 真是太美妙了 Sounds nothing like that. Oh, that is so pretty.
谢谢 泰迪 请坐下慢慢欣赏吧 Thank you. Teddy, have a seat, relax.
好的 Okay.
喔唷 是按摩椅 Oh, massage chair.
舒服啊 Ni-I-I-ce.
烟熏三文鱼和蘸酱切边吐司 Smoked salmon and dill on toast points.
您这弄的算小零食吗 That's a snack?
我个人对厨艺烹调稍有涉猎 I dabble in the culinary arts.
您这手艺可是比稍有涉猎强多了 Mm, you more than dabble in that.
哦等等 我能再拿一块吗 Oh wait, can I have one more?
你想现在开始学习不 You want to start studying?
再等一分钟就好 In a mi-I-inute.
哼 我早就知道了 一旦人到达巅峰 Well, I'm not surprised. Once you're on top,
总有人嫉妒的想把你拉下马 They just want to knock you down.
你在说什么呢 What are you talking about?
你来看看有些人对查莉的视频的回复评论吧 Listen to some of these comments about the Charlie video.
这个叫Fredr5178的人说 Fred r5178 says,
“可爱是可爱 不过这只是狗屎运 昙花一现的” "Cute, but you got lucky, one-hit wonder."
还有另外一个人说“你真是个可悲没天赋的失败者” Here's another one... "You're a pathetic, no-talent loser!"
后面还跟了十九个惊叹号 With about 19 exclamation points.
这人账号名字叫“盖比D” That one's from GabeD.
这些人到底是谁啊 Who are these people?
那可没办法查得出来 There's no way to know.
盖比宝贝 过来这边 Gabe honey, come here.
给你看看妈妈以前的风光时刻 I want to show you something very exciting from mommy's past.
老姐告诉过我只要听到那种话 Teddy told me if I ever heard those words,
应该直接忽视走掉 I should just keep walking.
给我留在这儿 Park it.
我现在是为了上电视前的准备功课 Now in preparation for our television appearance
先翻出以前的我以前做的传播节目来研究一下 I'm studying some of my previous broadcast work.
想当年老娘也是记者一名 I used to be a reporter.
是西南丹佛社区学院的时事新闻组成员 For the southwest Denver community college action news team.
在全国都有我们成打的观众群呢 We reached dozens of viewers all across the country.
现在放的这个是我最有力的报道之一 This is one of my hardest-hitting pieces.
在我手里拿着的这个东西 In my hand I'm holding.
是我们校园中首次登场的 Something new to our campus...
手机 A cell phone.
就是移动电话的简称 "Cell" Is short for "Cellular"
信不信由你 Believe it or not,
你可以随处带着这个电话到处跑 You can use this phone wherever you go.
我知道这听上去很无稽 I know it sounds crazy,
（注：90年代美国著名歌手）
不过正如宝拉·阿布杜会说的 But as Paula abdul would say,
“我是实话实说” "I'm tellin' ya straight up."
真是不错 老娘太牛了 It was good. It was really good.
-晕 无法相信 -没开玩笑吧 史上最差投球 - Oh, unbelievable. - Are you kidding me? That's the worst throw!
喂 Hi.
哦 泰迪啊 你手里拿的是什么 Hey, Teddy. Hey, what you got there?
从斯宾塞家里拿来的打包饭菜 Leftovers from Spencer's house.
快点啊 Come on!
我看不下去了 我要关了它 I can't watch this. I'm turning it off.
别别 等等 广告是那个会说话的搞笑大脚呢 No no, wait wait. The commercial with the talking foot.
吃饭啦 Dinner!
（注：buns也是俚语中的“臀部”）
拿着你的圆面包 今晚吃牛肉三明治 Grab your buns. It's sloppy Joe night.
妈妈刚才说“拿着你的屁股”哈哈 Mom just said, "Grab your buns."
最好快去拿 泰迪 Go fast.Teddy.
我不用了 谢谢 I'm fine, thank you.
喔 你吃的是啥 Ooh, what are you having?
蘸酱切边吐司配三文鱼 Toast points with salmon and dill.

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58. Like Father, Like Son

第58课 有其父必有其子

Tom, whose parents are conservative, is talking to Karen, whose parents are open-minded.
汤姆的父母想法很保守，他正在跟凯伦说话，她的父母思想很开明。
Boy, I'm really fed up with my dad.
唉，我真的受够我老爸了。
Why? What's the problem?
为什么？出了什么问题？
My dad, whose upbringing was very strict, expects me to live by his old rules.
我那在严格管教之下长大的老爸指望我也按照他的老规矩生活。
K;That's too bad. He must be crazy.
那太惨了。他一定是疯了。
You know what? He even buys clothes for me, the styles of which belong to the fifties.
你知道吗？他甚至还买五十年代样式的衣服给我。
What a nut!
好个疯子！
Hey, stop calling my dad names.
嘿，别辱骂我爹了。
But I thought…
可是我以为……
No matter what, he's still my dad.
不管怎么样，他还是我的老爸。
Like father, like son!
真是有其父必有其子！

[00:00.00]Mr Chairman,
[00:01.79]ladies and gentlemen,
[00:03.26]most of my cabinet colleagues
[00:06.44]have started of their speeches of reply
[00:09.82]by paying very well deserved tributes
[00:13.32]to their junior ministers.
[00:16.10]At Number 10,
[00:17.52]I have no junior ministers.
[00:21.16]There is just Denis and me,
[00:24.32]but I could not do without him.
[00:34.22]I am, however,
[00:35.74]very fortunate in having
[00:37.96]a marvellous deputy
[00:40.34]who is wonderful
[00:41.40]in all places
[00:42.62]at all times
[00:43.94]in all things
[00:45.10]Willie Whitelaw.
[00:53.55]At our party conference last year
[00:57.15]I said that the task
[00:59.07]on which the government was engaged
[01:01.54]to change the national attitude of mind,
[01:05.45]was the most challenging
[01:07.17]to face any British administration
[01:09.59]since the war.
[01:11.62]Challenge is exhilarating.
[01:14.91]This week we Conservatives
[01:16.91]have been taking stock,
[01:18.68]discussing the achievements,
[01:20.63]the setbacks and the work
[01:22.24]that lies ahead
[01:23.76]as we enter our second parliamentary year.
[01:28.17]As you said,
[01:28.83]Mr. Chairman,
[01:30.20]our debates have been stimulating
[01:31.89]and our criticism have been constructive.
[01:35.25]This week has demonstrated
[01:37.54]that we are a party united
[01:40.58]in purpose, strategy and resolve.
[01:53.27]And we actually like one another.
[02:03.23]When I am asked for a detailed forecast
[02:06.54]of what will happen
[02:07.61]in the coming months or years,
[02:10.64]I remember Sam Goldwyn's advice:
[02:13.68]Never prophesy,
[02:15.66]especially about the future.
[02:20.31](Interruption from the floor)
[02:21.92]Never mind,
[02:25.78]it is wet outside.
[02:26.38]I expect that they wanted to come in.
[02:38.66]You cannot blame them;
[02:40.59]it is always better where the Tories are.
[02:55.92]And you,
[02:57.38]and perhaps they,
[02:58.51]will be looking to me this afternoon
[03:00.74]for an indication of how the government
[03:03.27]sees the task before us
[03:05.36]and why we are tackling it
[03:06.52]the way we are.
[03:08.54]Before I begin,
[03:09.61]let me get one point out of the way.
[03:12.54]This week at Brighton
[03:13.91]we have heard a good deal
[03:15.24]about last week at Blackpool.
[03:17.81]I will have a little more to say
[03:19.54]about that strange assembly later,
[03:22.84]but for the moment I want to say just this.
[03:25.99]Because of what happened at that conference,
[03:29.39]there has been,
[03:30.75]behind all our deliberations this week,
[03:34.19]a heightened awareness that now,
[03:37.99]more than ever,
[03:38.94]our Conservative government must succeed.
[03:42.88]We just must,
[03:56.53]because there is even more at stake
[03:59.47]than some had realized.
[04:01.55]There are many things to be done
[04:03.21]to set this nation on the road to recovery,
[04:06.41]and I do not mean economic recovery alone,
[04:10.42]but a new independence of spirit
[04:13.61]and zest for achievement.
[04:16.59]It is sometimes said
[04:18.26]that because of our past,
[04:20.29]we, as a people,
[04:22.00]expect too much
[04:22.77]and set our sights too high.
[04:25.01]Mr. Chairman
[04:26.02]that is not the way I see it.
[04:28.05]Rather it seems to me
[04:29.89]that throughout my life in politics
[04:32.32]our ambitions have steadily shrunk.
[04:35.61]Our response to disappointment
[04:37.67]has not been to lengthen our stride
[04:41.77]but to shorten the distance to be covered.
[04:44.25]But with confidence in ourselves
[04:46.58]and in our future,
[04:48.41]what a nation we could be!
[04:59.05]In its first 17 months,
[05:01.07]this government
[05:01.73]has laid the foundations for recovery.
[05:05.01]We have undertaken
[05:05.97]a heavy load of legislation,
[05:07.70]a load we do not intend to repeat
[05:10.44]because we do not share
[05:12.52]the socialist fantasy
[05:14.02]that achievement is measured
[05:15.54]by the number of laws you pass.
[05:23.17]But there was a formidable barricade
[05:25.51]of obstacles that we had to sweep aside.
[05:28.54]For a start,
[05:29.90]in his first budget
[05:31.36]Geoffrey Howe began to rest incentives
[05:34.45]to stimulate the abilities
[05:36.43]and inventive genius of our people.
[05:39.27]Prosperity comes not from
[05:41.44]grand conferences of economists
[05:44.21]but by countless acts
[05:46.09]of personal self-confidence
[05:48.43]and self-reliance.
[05:51.41]Also under Geoffrey's leadership,
[05:54.39]Britain has repaid
[05:56.21]$3,600m of international debt,
[06:02.26]debt which had been run up
[06:03.83]by our predecessors.
[06:05.24]And we paid quite a lot of it
[06:06.97]before it was due.
[06:18.10]In the last 12 months
[06:20.45]Geoffrey has abolished exchange controls
[06:22.63]over which British governments
[06:24.22]have dithered for decades.
[06:26.60]Our great enterprises are now
[06:28.17]free to seek opportunities overseas
[06:35.54]We have made the first crucial changes
[06:38.07]in trade union law
[06:39.59]to remove the worst abuses
[06:41.41]of the closed shop,
[06:42.88]to restrict picketing
[06:44.30]to the place of work
[06:45.32]of the parties in dispute,
[06:46.89]and to encourage secret ballots.
[06:49.56]Jim Prior has carried all these measures
[06:52.15]through with the support
[06:53.51]of the vast majority
[06:54.93]of trade union members.
[07:07.57]British Aerospace will soon
[07:09.21]be open to private investment.
[07:11.49]The monopoly of the Post Office
[07:13.27]and British Telecommunications
[07:14.83]is being diminished.
[07:16.85]The barriers to private generation
[07:23.63]of electricity for sale have been lifted.
[07:26.48]For the first time nationalized industries
[07:29.40]and public utilities can be investigated
[07:32.44]by the monopolies commission
[07:34.21]a long overdue reform
[07:45.23]Michael Heseltine has given to millions,
[07:48.63]yes, millions of council tenants
[07:51.00]the right to buy their own homes.
[08:02.82]It was Anthony Eden
[08:03.84]who chose for us the goal
[08:05.91]of a property-owning democracy.
[08:08.45]But for all the time
[08:09.67]that I have been in public affairs,
[08:11.59]that has been beyond
[08:13.11]the reach of so many,
[08:15.33]who were denied the right
[08:16.70]to the most basic ownership of all
[08:19.53]the homes in which they live.
[08:21.30]They wanted to buy.
[08:22.82]Many of them could afford to buy.
[08:24.89]But they happened to live
[08:26.05]under the jurisdiction of a council
[08:27.31]which would not sell
[08:30.82]and did not believe in the independence
[08:32.99]that comes with ownership.
[08:40.52]Now Michael Heseltine
[08:42.44]has given them the chance
[08:43.65]to turn a dream into reality.
[08:46.84]And all this, Mr. Chairman,
[08:48.36]and a lot more in 17 months.
[08:56.14]But Mr. Chairman,
[08:57.17]all this will avail us little unless
[09:00.60]we achieve our prime economic objective
[09:03.08]the defeat of inflation.
[09:06.41]Inflation destroys nations and societies
[09:10.36]as surely as invading armies do.
[09:13.85]Inflation is the parent of unemployment.
[09:17.70]It is the unseen robber
[09:19.47]of those who have saved.
[09:21.59]No policy which puts at risk
[09:23.82]the defeat of inflation
[09:25.89]however great
[09:26.81]its short-term attraction can be right.
[09:29.09]But, Mr. Chairman,
[09:31.96]our policy for the defeat of inflation is
[09:33.85]in fact, traditional.
[09:36.78]It existed long before Sterling M3
[09:40.84]embellished the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin
[09:45.24]or "monetarism" became a convenient term
[09:48.23]of political invective.
[09:50.04]But some people talk
[09:52.57]as if control of the money supply
[09:53.94]was a revolutionary policy.
[09:57.22]Yet it was an essential condition
[09:59.64]for the recovery of much
[10:01.36]of continental Europe.
[10:03.75]Those countries knew
[10:05.72]what was required for economic stability.
[10:08.85]Previously, they had lived
[10:10.98]through rampant inflation;
[10:13.24]they knew that it led to suitcase money,
[10:16.23]massive unemployment
[10:18.07]and did to the breakdown of society itself.
[10:21.70]They determined never to go that way again.
[10:26.23]Today,
[10:27.51]after many years of monetary self-discipline,
[10:30.90]they have stable,
[10:32.62]prosperous economies
[10:34.29]better able than ours
[10:36.37]to withstand the buffeting
[10:37.93]of world recession.
[10:39.96]So at international conferences
[10:41.92]to discuss economic affairs,
[10:44.11]many of my fellow heads of government
[10:46.79]find our policies not strange,
[10:51.03]unusual or revolutionary,
[10:53.97]but normal, sound and honest.
[10:57.61]And that is what they are.
[11:06.04]Their only question to me is this
[11:08.74]"Has Britain the courage
[11:10.77]and resolve to sustain the discipline
[11:13.44]for long enough to break through to success?"
[11:16.79]Yes, Mr Chairman,
[11:18.46]we have, and we shall.
[11:21.20]This government are determined
[11:23.16]to stay with the policy
[11:24.88]and see it through to its conclusion.
[11:36.09]That is what marks this administration
[11:39.17]as one of the truly radical ministries
[11:41.96]of postwar Britain.
[11:44.15]Inflation is falling
[11:46.27]and should continue to fall.
[11:49.06]Meanwhile, Mr. Chairman,
[11:50.79]we are not heedless
[11:52.06]of the hardships
[11:53.64]and worries for the company
[11:55.67]to conquest of inflation.
[11:58.10]Foremost among these is unemployment.
[12:01.74]Today our country has more than
[12:04.87]2 million unemployed.
[12:07.57]Now you can try to soften that figure
[12:09.95]in a dozen ways.
[12:12.06]You can point out
[12:12.93]and it is quite legitimate to do so
[12:15.51]that 2 million today does not mean
[12:17.47]what it meant in the 1930s
[12:19.75]that the percentage of unemployment
[12:21.73]is much less now than it was then.
[12:24.71]You can add that today
[12:26.27]many more married women
[12:27.56]go out to work.
[12:29.37]You can stress that,
[12:30.74]because of the high birthrate
[12:32.00]in the early 1960s,
[12:34.63]there is an unusually large number
[12:36.76]of school leavers this year
[12:38.79]looking for work
[12:40.37]and that the same will be true
[12:41.63]for the next two years.
[12:43.80]You can emphasise that
[12:45.32]about a quarter of a million people
[12:46.93]find new jobs each month
[12:49.62]and therefore go off the employment register.
[12:52.95]And you can recall that
[12:54.28]there are now
[12:55.90]nearly 25 million people in jobs
[12:59.97]compared with only about 18 million
[13:02.49]in the 1930s.
[13:04.01]You can point out that
[13:05.53]the Labour party conveniently overlooks
[13:08.01]the fact that of the 2 million unemployed
[13:10.94]for which they blame us,
[13:13.66]nearly a million and a half
[13:16.00]were bequeathed by their government.
[13:30.06]But when all that has been said,
[13:32.73]the fact remains that
[13:34.92]the level of unemployment
[13:36.65]in our country today
[13:38.61]is a human tragedy.
[13:46.61]Let me make it clear beyond doubt.
[13:49.54]I am profoundly concerned about unemployment.
[13:53.34]Human dignity
[13:55.14]and self-respect are undermined
[13:58.33]when men and women
[13:59.24]are condemned to idleness.
[14:01.62]The waste of a country's most precious assets
[14:05.21]the talent and energy of its people
[14:08.51]makes it the bounden duty of government
[14:11.64]to seek a real and lasting cure.
[14:23.52]If I could press a button
[14:24.83]and genuinely solve the unemployment problem,
[14:28.28]do you think that I would not
[14:29.60]press that button this instant?
[14:32.69]Does anyone imagine that
[14:34.01]there is the smallest political gain
[14:36.58]in letting this level of unemployment continue,
[14:40.59]or that there is some obscure economic religion
[14:43.63]which demands this level of unemployment
[14:45.76]as part of its religious ritual?
[14:49.18]Mr. Chairman,
[14:50.24]this government

57. New Asian Generation

第57课 亚洲新生代

In the past, the children of Asia had very few choices.
在过去，生长在亚洲的小孩子没有什么选择可言。
A son would usually follow in his father's footsteps and do the same kind of job as his father.
做儿子的通常会继承父亲的衣钵并且和他父亲同样的工作。
But now, young people have higher education which opens doors to new kinds of jobs.
但是现在，年轻人受到高等教育，这也为他们开启了各种新工作的大门。
TV exposes kids to new ideas from other countries.
电视使得孩子们接触到来自其他国家的新观念。
So, the younger generations of Asians are doing things their parents never dreamed of.
所以，亚洲年轻一代的人现在在做一些他们父母亲做梦也没想到的事情。
They're investing in stocks or dying their hair purple.
他们在做股票投资或把头发染成紫色。
Unfortunately, some are also getting into trouble with sex and drugs.
不幸的是，有一些却受到色情和毒品的侵害。
Asian parents whose children are doing all this do have a reason to be worried.
亚洲籍的父母若其子女有这样的表现，则的确有理由会操心的。