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@ 50461 混血兒
A 聽說你姐姐最近生孩子了？
tīngshuō nǐ jiějie zuìjìn shēng háizi le?
I hear your elder sister recently had a kid?
B 是啊，生了個女兒。
shì ā, shēng le ge nǚér.
That's right. She had a girl.
A 長得一定很漂亮吧。
cháng de yīdìng hěn piàoliang ba.
She must be very beautiful.
B 那當然，跟洋娃娃一樣，見過的人都說可愛。
nà dāngrán, gēn yángwáwá yíyàng, jiàn guo de rén dōu shuō kěài.
Of course, she's as pretty as a foreign baby. Everyone who's seen her says she's cute.
A 她是混血兒嘛，一般來說，混血兒都是又聰明又漂亮的。
tā shì húnxiěér ma, yìbānláishuō, húnxiěér dōu shì yòu cōngming yòu piàoliang de.
She's got mixed blood. Generally, people with mixed-blood are both intelligent and beautiful.
B 是嗎？這又是從哪兒聽來的？
shì ma? zhè yòu shì cóng nǎr tīnglái de?
Really? Where'd you hear that?
A 是我在網上看到的。根據遺傳學原理，父母的血緣關係越遠，基因排列越不同，生出來的寶寶品質就越高，越容易實現優勢基因互補。你看現在那些漂亮的明星，很多都是混血兒呢。我死黨的男朋友也是混血兒，不但長得帥，還精通五國語言，大家不知道有多羨慕他呢，都說他撿了個寶。
shì wǒ zài wǎngshàng kàndào de. gēnjù yíchuánxué yuánlǐ, fùmǔ de xiěyuán guānjì yuè yuǎn, jīyīn páiliè yuè bùtóng, shēngchūlai de bǎobao pǐnzhì jiù yuè gāo, yuè róngyì shíxiàn yòushì jīyīn hùbǔ. nǐ kàn xiànzài nàxiē piàoliang de míngxīng, hěn duō dōu shì húnxiěér ne. wǒ sǐdǎng de nánpéngyou yě shì húnxiěér, búdàn cháng de shuài, hái jīngtōng wǔ guó yǔyán, dàjiā bù zhīdào yǒu duō xiànmù tā ne, dōu shuō tā jiǎn le ge bǎo.
I saw it on the Internet. According to a principle of genetics, the further apart the blood ties of the parents, the more different the genetic arrangement will be, and the higher the likelihood that the baby will be of really good stock. The excellent genes complement each other. Look at those beautiful stars-- a lot of them have mixed blood. My very close boyfriend also has mixed blood. Not only is he handsome, he's fluent in five languages. Everybody envies him so much, and says he really hit the jackpot.
B 時代果然不同了，記得我小的時候，班裡有個同學是混血兒，大家都很歧視他，還罵他是雜種呢，沒想到現在混血兒這麼吃香。
shídài guǒrán bùtóng le, jìde wǒ xiǎo de shíhou, bān lǐ yǒu ge tóngxué shì húnxiěér, dàjiā dōu hěn qíshì tā, hái mà tā shì zázhǒng ne, méixiǎngdào xiànzài húnxiěér zhème chīxiāng.
As expected, the times have changed. I remember when I was young I had a mixed blood classmate. Everybody really discriminated against him, and called him a bastard. I had no idea that people of mixed blood would be so well-received these days.
A 以前的人比較注重血統的純粹，對於不同膚色、民族的人總有排斥心理，可現在不是提倡消除種族歧視嗎？而且現在國際交流這麼頻繁，接受國際婚姻的人越來越多，對混血兒的看法自然也有所改變。
yǐqián de rén bǐjiào zhùzhòng xuètǒng de chúncuì, duìyú bùtóng fūsè, mínzú de rén zǒng yǒu páichì xīnlǐ, kě xiànzài bù shì tíchàng xiāochú zhǒngzú qíshì ma? érqiě xiànzài guójì jiāoliú zhème pínfán, jiēshòu guójì hūnyīn de rén yuèláiyuèduō, duì húnxiěér de kànfǎ zìrán yě yǒusuǒ gǎibiàn.
In the past, people used to pay a lot of attention to the purity of blood. They discriminated against people of different races or colors. But now isn't everyone talking about getting rid of racial discrimination? And now, there's so much international exchange, more and more people are accepting of mixed-nationality marriages. So people's opinions about mixed blood children have also naturally changed.
B 是啊，至少我周圍的人都很喜歡混血兒。就拿我的外甥女來說吧，不管是我姐姐的鄰居還是朋友，每次看到這孩子都搶著要抱她親她。大家還說，這孩子將來肯定是個小才女，學貫中西、前途不可限量啊。
shì ā, zhìshǎo wǒ zhōuwéi de rén dōu hěn xǐhuan húnxiěér. jiù ná wǒ de wàishengnǚ láishuō ba, bùguǎn shì wǒ jiějie de línjū háishì péngyou, měicì kàndào zhè háizi dōu qiāng zhe yào bào tā qīn tā. dàjiā hái shuō, zhè háizi jiānglái kěndìng shì ge xiǎo cáinǚ, xuéguànzhōngxī, qiántú bùkěxiànliàng ā.
Yeah. At least, the people around me all really like mixed race people. Just take my niece for example. No matter whether it's my sister's neighbors or her friends-- whenever anyone sees her, they want to pick her up and hold her and kiss her. Everybody says that in the future this kid will definitely be very talented. She'll be able to master the West and China. There's no telling where she'll go.
A 比起其他孩子，混血兒從小在多語言，多文化的家庭環境中長大，有學習優勢那是毋庸置疑的，不過肯定也會面臨普通孩子所沒有的煩惱。
bǐ qǐ qítā háizi, húnxiěér cóngxiǎo zài duō yǔyán, duō wénhuà de jiātíng huánjìng zhōng zhǎngdà, yǒu xuéxí yòushì nà shì wúyōngzhìyí de, bùguò kěndìng yě huì miànlín pǔtōng háizi suǒ méiyǒu de fánnǎo.
Compared with other kids, there's no doubt that growing up in a multi-lingual, multi-cultural home gives mixed blood children a big academic advantage. But they also definitely face some headaches that ordinary kids don't have.
B 可不是嘛，遠的不說，就說國籍問題，最近我姐姐和姐夫還爭論不休呢。我姐夫是美國人，美國法律允許多重國籍，可是孩子在中國出生，而中國是不承認雙重國籍的。
kě bùshì ma, yuǎn de bù shuō, jiù shuō guójí wèntí, zuìjìn wǒ jiějie hé jiěfu huán zhēnglùnbùxiū ne. wǒ jiěfu shì měiguórén, Měiguó fǎlǜ yǔnxǔ duō chóng guójí, kěshì háizi zài Zhōngguó chūshēng, ér Zhōngguó shì bù chéngrèn shuāngchóng guójí de.
Ain't that the truth. Don't even think about the abstract stuff. Just think about citizenship. Lately my sister and her husband have been talking about this stuff all the time. My brother-in-law is an American. American law permits dual citizenship, but the kid was born in China, and China does not recognize dual citizenship.
A 這有什麼好煩惱的，孩子在中國的時候就是中國人，在美國的時候就是美國人，等她滿了十八歲，讓她自己選擇國籍不就行了。全球化時代，是哪國公民並不重要，只要對人類有貢獻就行。
zhè yǒu shénme hǎo fánnǎo de, háizi zài Zhōngguó de shíhou jiùshì zhōngguórén, zài Měiguó de shíhou jiùshì měiguórén, děng tā mǎn le shí bā suì, ràng tā zìjǐ xuǎnzé guójí bù jiù xíng le. quánqiúhuà shídài, shì nǎ guó gōngmín bìng bù zhòngyào, zhǐyào duì rénlèi yǒu gòngxiàn jiù xíng.
What good is it to get worked up about that? When the kid is in China she's Chinese, and when she's in America she's an American. Wait until she's eighteen, then have her choose which nationality she wants to be. Problem solved. In the era of globalization, it doesn't matter what nationality you are. As long as you make a contribution to humanity, that's enough.
B 要是人人都像你這麼想，問題可就簡單多了。
yàoshì rénrén dōu xiàng nǐ zhème xiǎng, wèntí kě jiù jiǎndān duō le.
If everyone thought the way you do, the world's problems would be a lot simpler.
Key Vocabulary
血緣關係 xiěyuán guānjì related by blood
互補 hùbǔ to complement
死黨 sǐdǎng sworn followers
精通 jīngtōng master in
吃香 chīxiāng being popular
純粹 chúncuì pure
排斥 páichì to reject
頻繁 pínfán frequent
學貫中西 xuéguàn ZhōngXī study customs of both China and the West
不可限量 bùkěxiànliàng limitless
毋庸置疑 wúyōngzhìyí without a doubt
爭論不休 zhēnglùn bùxiū debate endlessly
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Supplementary Vocabulary
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