Nick: Hi everybody, this is Nick. Welcome to teaching series "how do you say this in American English."大家好，我是Nick.
Brad: 大家好，我是Brad
Nick: 今天我們來學一個詞，叫媽寶。媽寶在我們生活中也是用的比較多，說一類人，可以是男可以是女，說他們完全沒有生活能力，非常的依賴自己的父母。非常的不獨立。盲目地聽從父母的意見，叫媽寶。So Brad, have you ever encountered a type of people who never make decisions by themselves?
Brad: Yeah I know what you are talking about. You are talking about mama's boys or daddy's girls, depending who you are talking to. Yeah definitely. A mama's boy, for instance. I was hanging out one the other night. We were having a good time at some bars. And we were getting kinda loud. He said, "no, I don't think my mom would like that."
Nick: I don't think it's normal
Brad: I mean, it's fine though. You are saying about your mom. Moms are great. But to the point where she's a hundred miles away and she still governing what you can do. That's a mama's boy.
Nick: This is ridiculous
Brad: Yeah he's not independent himself at all. Even some girls are independent themselves.
Nick: That person you talked about. He relies heavily on his mother.
Brad: Yeah Without a doubt.
Nick: This is not always good. listening to your parents like all the time.
Brad: Yeah I mean it's good to have respects for them
Nick: Absolutely
Brad: But when it gets to the point where it's interfering with your ability to be independent. That's mama's boy.
Nick: So you always say "mama's boy" instead of "mom's boy" or "mother's boy" or whatever.
Brad: Yeah I mean I know what you are talking about if you say "mom's boy", but the expression is mama's boy.
Nick: Nobody's gonna say the other ways.
Brad: Maybe, there's always gonna be some dude out there saying it. But the majority of us are saying mama's boy.
Nick: Ok. Thank you.那我們剛剛說的媽寶的表達呢就是叫這個。如果是男的，可以叫mama's boy.如果是女的,可以叫daddy's girl.一般情況下，我們是說mama或者是daddy, 我們不會換成是mom, 或者是mother，雖然大家也能聽懂，但是大部分是不會這么用的，也沒有聽過人家這么用。用法也跟大家說了，非常沒有獨立性，非常的不自主，什么都聽父母的。當然聽父母的是好的趨勢，但是所有東西都聽父母，就有點盲從. So this is pretty it for this time. I'll see you guys next time, bye
Brad: 再見