美语情景对话 第1262期:Should children be taught about finance? 应该教孩子理财知识吗?
Christophe: Hello, I am Christophe from Belgium, and this is Aiste from Lithuania. This is the question of the day: Should kids learn about personal finance? Aiste, what is your opinion about that?
克里斯托夫：大家好，我是克里斯托夫，来自比利时，这是艾斯蒂，来自立陶宛，今天的话题是：孩子们应该了解理财知识吗？艾斯蒂，你怎么看？Aiste: Well, I think it should definitely learn about personal finance, so my opinion is that any kids shouldn't be given a lot of money, and shouldn't think that money just appears when you go to your mom or dad and say, " I want this. I want that - and - please give me money for that, so if the kid feels that money is a limited thing, I think that's the first step to learn about personal finance. What's your opinion, Christophe?
艾斯蒂：我认为绝对应该了解个人理财知识，我认为不应该给孩子们太多钱，不应该让孩子们认为要去管父母要钱，比如“我想要这个。我想要那个，请给我钱去买”，如果孩子们感觉钱是有限制的，那就是了解个人理财知识的第一步。你的看法呢，克里斯托夫？Christophe: Wait! But you told me that when you were a small girl, you went to your daddy and you said 'Daddy, can I have money, please?' and it was all the time like that.
克里斯托夫：等等！可是你跟我说过，你小时候会去向你爸爸要钱，你会说：“爸爸，能给我点儿钱吗？”而且你一直是那样做的。
Aiste: Yes, but my amount was kind of limited, and every litas I got, that's the currency in my country, every litas was counted for a certain purpose, so my dad knew exactly that my transportation costs would be two litas and I had five litas for my lunch during the day, and that was it. So it was really ... because I used to go to school for a kind of locked time and I had to eat lunch, and so because he knew that, I couldn't have any extra money that I would use that for for example, if I would need some puzzle, or I would like to go somewhere, I couldn't actually save unless I didn't eat. So the money was actually limited, so I could feel that this was not just get as much as you want.
艾斯蒂：对，不过我的钱是有限制的，我们国家的货币是立特，我拿到的每枚立特都有特定的用途，我爸爸清楚地知道我的交通费是2立特，午饭需要5立特，就是这样。以前我上学有固定的时间，而且我要吃午饭，所以他知道，我没有多余的钱去干别的事情，即使我想买拼图，或者我想去其他地方，那我也没办法攒钱，除非我不吃饭。所以我的零花钱是有限制的，我能感觉到，并不是你想要多少就能得到多少。Christophe: So what you're saying is that you learned about personal finance?
克里斯托夫：你的意思是，你学到了个人理财知识？Aiste: Yes, I think so.
艾斯蒂：对，我想是的。Christophe: So that's good.
克里斯托夫：那很好。Aiste: Well, probably.
艾斯蒂：可能吧。
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重点讲解：
1. all the time 一直；始终；
例句：I get the two of them mixed up all the time, they're so similar.
我一直把他们俩弄混，他俩太像了。
2. used to do sth. 过去常常；过去曾；
例句：Above all, this time that I used to waste on social network sites has taught me nothing and has given me very little in return.
最重要的是，这些我过去浪费在社交网站上的时间没有教给我任何东西，几乎没有带来益处。
3. would like to do sth. （表示愿意）想要；
例句：Lastly, I would like to ask about your future plans.
最后，我想问一下你未来的计划。
