英語口語練習小對話 第290期:火上加油

迷你對話：

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A: I seldom heard the quarreling of her children.

我很少聽到她的孩子大吵大鬧。

B: Why do you say that?

你爲什麼這麼說？

A: Because her children have been the age when they seem to quarrel all day long.

因爲她的孩子正值整天要吵架的年齡。

B: Oh, I see. She told me that she had learned very quickly how to pour oil on troubled water, but not to pour oil on the flame.

哦，我明白了。她告訴我學會了一套調停爭端的本事，而不是讓事情進一步發展。

A: She is a cleaver mother.

她真是個聰明的母親。