英語幽默精讀【61】Boy, Oh Boy
When they're together, my five-year-old son and his cousin tend to cause mayhem. one Saturday, I put my foot down. "All right, you two," I said sternly. "No screaming , grabbing, whining, hitting, teasing, tattling, breaking toys, scratching or fighting."
As I turned to leave, I heard my son say, "C'mon, Steven, let's get dirty . "
※ Notes
（1） tend to（do）傾向；趨向
（2） mayhem n.大混亂；大災害
（3） put one's foot down開始抗議
（4） sternly adv.嚴厲地
（5） whine v.哭鬧
（6） tease v.取笑
（7） tattle v.扯淡
※ Exercises
根據短文回答下列問題：
① How old is the son?
② What do they tend to do when the son and his cousin are together?
③ What does "Put one's foot down" mean here?
④ Did the boy obey the father's order?
⑤ What did they do then?
※ 譯文
讓人無奈的孩子
我五歲的兒子和他的表弟在一起的時候，總要招來大亂。一個星期六，我開始抗議了。“好啦，你們兩個，”我嚴厲地說，“不許叫喊，不許亂拿，不許哭鬧，不許亂敲，不許取笑，不許扯淡，不許弄壞玩具，不許亂抓，不許打架。”
我剛轉身要走，就聽我兒子說：“來，斯蒂文，我們來把自己弄臟吧。”
※ 練習參考答案
① Five.
② They tend to cause mayhem.
③ it means "to make up one's mind to stop sth from happening".
④ No, he didn't
⑤ They began to get dirty.
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