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Ira: It’s amazing that everybody in your family works in the sciences.
厄瑪：你全家人都從事科學方面的工作，太不可思議了。
Shirley: Yeah, my parents are both in the social sciences. My father is a psychologist and my mother is an economist.
雪莉：對，我父母的崗位屬于社會科學領域。我父親是心理學家，母親是經濟學家。
Ira: And your sister Shonda?
厄瑪：你姐姐珊達呢？
Shirley: She’s an astronomer. She initially wanted to study physics, but changed her mind. Her partner is a geologist.
雪莉：她是天文學家。最初，她想攻讀物理，但又改變了主意。她的丈夫是地質學家。
Ira: Is your brother also in astronomy?
厄瑪：你哥哥也在天文領域工作嗎？
Shirley: No, he’s a biologist and his wife does chemistry research.
雪莉：不是，他是生物學家，他的妻子做化學方面的研究。
Ira: How about your other brother? What does he do?
厄瑪：你另外的一位哥哥呢？他是做什么的？
Shirley: Um, we don’t . . . I mean he’s not involved in the social sciences, life sciences, or physical sciences.
雪莉：嗯，我們并沒有......我是說他與社會科學，生命科學，或物理科學一點都不挨邊。
Ira: If I remember correctly, he was always good at math and liked computers. Is he in computer science?
厄瑪：如果我沒記錯的話，他一直很擅長數學，喜歡計算機。那他從事的是計算機科學？
Shirley: No, he’s not. All right, he’s a writer, but we have every confidence that he’ll grow out of it.
雪莉：并不是。不瞞你說，他只是一名作家，不過我們相信以后他會“棄筆從科”的。
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