Dear listeners, for today's show, I have with my colleague, Mary Laney. She has been a radio TV reporter for many years. Mary, welcome to our show.
親愛的聽眾朋友們,今天的節目我邀請到了我的同事瑪麗·蘭尼,她做廣播電視記者有很多年了。瑪麗,歡迎來到我們的節目。
It's a pleasure to be here.
很高興來到這里。
Would you please tell our listeners who most influenced your decision to become a reporter?
能不能告訴聽眾朋友們對你成為記者的決定影響最大的是誰呢?
Both my parents had a great influence upon my choices of work. Instead of trying to pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.
我的父母對我工作的選擇有很大的影響,他們沒有幫我選工作,而是教我怎么去選。
How did they do that?
他們是怎么教你的?
My father always told me that an education was one of the greatest advantages I could have, one that would always stay with me. He used to tell me that readers were leaders, and encouraged me to read all I could. As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.
我父親總是告訴我教育是我所擁有的最大優勢之一、一個永遠陪伴著我的優勢。他曾告訴我說讀者就是領導者,他鼓勵我要盡我所能地去閱讀。后來,我會去追每期的報紙;我成了新聞雜志的忠實讀者;我學會了真正去享受書籍。所有的這些對我的廣播和電視報道都是無價的幫助。
What about your mother?
那你媽媽呢?
Well, my mother helped me in a much different way.
嗯,我媽媽幫助我的方式大不相同。