aDoes your family have a record of your ancestors?
你们家有家谱吗？
bSure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. She’s always updating it.
当然有了。我妈妈这些年来一直在整理家谱，而且保持更新。
aDo you have a copy of your family tree in your house? I’d love to see it.
你家里有副本吗？我很想看一看。
bI can show it to you now, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.
如果你想看，我现在就可以拿给你。我想这本大概能追溯到8代前。
aThat’s amazing. Do you have a large extended family?
这太有意思了，你们家族很庞大吗？
bI’ve got 30 cousins on my mom’s side and 10 cousins on my dad’s side.
在我母亲那边我大概有30个堂兄弟姐妹，我父亲这边大概有10个。
aAre you very close to your first-cousins?
你和你的堂兄弟姐妹关系走的近吗？
bThe ones that are my age are close relatives. Now that I’m older, I don’t spend as much time with them as I used to, so I don’t know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.
bIt’s definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.
当然是我母亲。而她的母亲算是这个大家庭的族长。
aThat’s interesting. What does your grandfather think of your step-mother?
这真有趣。你奶奶是怎么看你继母的？
bAt first, she was quite critical of her, but now that they’ve been married for a few years, she’s starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother.
原来她好像总是挑她的刺，后来他们结婚的年头久了，她似乎开始接受我父亲和我母亲离婚的这个现实了。
aThat’s pretty much how you feel about your step-mother. Like grandmother, like grandson.
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