新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第三册 te-unit09-c
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[00:01.98]1 The woman next to me in the bread cafe
[00:06.55]on 67th Street wants to know how much my baby weighs.
[00:11.09]I don\'t tell her that he\'s not my baby because I\'m tired of explaining.
[00:17.17]Instead, I look at Sam\'s year-old body.
[00:20.70]I have never been good at guessing weight,
[00:24.62]but I know Sam feels awfully heavy when I carry him around the city all day.
[00:29.81]2 "Forty pounds," I tell her, none too confidently.
[00:34.63]3 "Forty," she says. "I don\'t think so.
[00:38.59]Try somewhere around twenty."
[00:40.97]4 Sam twists in my arms and I look at my watch.
[00:45.54]Ann, his mom, is due back from her hair appointment any minute.
[00:50.47]In the meantime, I bounce Sam, sip my coffee and wait.
[00:56.56]5 "Honestly," the woman says to her friend,
[00:59.54]"What kind of parent doesn\'t know how much his child weighs?"
[01:03.72]6 I want to tell her that I\'m Sam\'s nanny,
[01:07.90]but I don\'t because I\'m a guy — a "nanny",
[01:12.76]you might say. Whenver someone learns that I\'m taking care of Sam,
[01:17.90]they turn on me — telling me not to bounce him too much or he\'ll throw up,
[01:23.59]demanding that I give him another bottle of milk.
[01:26.69]7 I have two younger sisters.
[01:29.53]I was a summer camp counselor for five years.
[01:33.28]I had a girlfriend with young nephews.
[01:36.19]I read the books What to Expect the First Year
[01:40.66]and What to Expect the Toddler Years.
[01:44.51]My experience with kids is probably just as good as,
[01:49.33]if not better than, any high school girl who watches kids.
[01:53.69]Still, I\'m not the one thing almost everyone thinks I should be for this job
[02:00.46]— a woman.
[02:01.82]8 When I look up, Ann is walking through the door.
[02:05.82]She kisses Sam, then looks at me. "How was he?"
[02:10.57]9 "Fine," I tell her. "How much does he weigh?"
[02:14.68]10 "Twenty-three pounds. Why?"
[02:17.30]11 "No reason." I say.
[02:19.86]12 I\'m sitting on a bench at the playground,
[02:23.28]eating a chicken salad next to four woman nannies, all twice my age.
[02:28.28]Sam is now a year and a half old,
[02:31.63]big enough to cross the playground\'s bouncy bridge himself.
[02:35.70]I watch him and the other children jump up and down.
[02:39.44]13 "I didn\'t get paid until last Thursday" one woman says.
[02:43.98]She takes a bite of her sandwich.
[02:47.00]"Olive tried to cheat me on the extra hours I worked."
[02:51.43]Everyone nods, sympathetically.
[02:54.56]14 "You guys get extra pay?" I ask.
[02:58.99]15 "After 40 hours a week," someone says.
[03:02.38]"Don\'t you pay your nanny that way?" one of them asks me.
[03:07.24]16 "No," I tell them. "I AM the nanny."
[03:10.80]17 They stare at me with suspicion.
[03:13.32]18 Is it really that big of a deal?
[03:16.56]Women are soldiers, truck drivers, and construction workers.
[03:21.82]Why can\'t a man be a nanny?
[03:23.90]I began watching Sam as a favor to Ann when I was in graduate school.
[03:29.56]Before I knew it, though,
[03:31.61]I slipped into the nanny position almost full time.
[03:35.21]It\'s a job I like, and it helped pay for school.
[03:39.46]But why does everyone have a problem with it?
[03:42.91]19 Insulted,
[03:45.18]I throw my lunch into the trash barrel and let Sam lead me to the swings.
[03:49.97]I tell him to hold tight, and back and forth he goes.
[03:54.94]20 "How old is he?" the woman at the next swing wants to know.
[04:00.52]She has a French accent and looks to have much energy to be a new mother.
[04:07.39]21 "About 17 months." I say. "And I\'m 324 months."
[04:13.48]22 She gives me a wary smile.
[04:16.54]Her baby is in the bucket swing,
[04:18.98]big brown eyes and wild curly hair.
[04:18.99]23 "She looks like you," I tell you.
[04:21.83]24 "Thanks," she says. "He has your blue eyes."
[04:26.44]25 "Oh, no. He\'s not mine. I\'m his nanny."
[04:31.48]26 She keeps pushing her baby. "A male nanny,"she says. "How unique."
[04:37.96]27 We look at the children, and I feel better.
[04:41.31]Across the playground, a girl falls off the bottom of the slide
[04:45.95]and bursts into tears.
[04:48.33]One of the nannies I lunched with rushes over and picks her up
[04:52.87]and brushes dirt from her knees.
[04:55.53]28 "Do you think she\'s all right?" I ask.
[04:58.27]29 "She\'s fine," the French woman says.
[05:01.11]"Kids fall all the time."
[05:03.74]30 But then Sam lets go of the swing.
[05:06.80]He flies into the air and lands face down in the dirt.
[05:11.84]31 "Sam!" I scream. I pick him up and wipe the dirt from his face.
[05:18.28]He looks like he is going to cry but laughs instead.
[05:23.03]32 "You know," the woman says.
[05:25.34]"If you\'re going to take care of him,you really should be more careful."
[05:29.41]33 Sam is almost 2 now.
[05:32.65]I\'ve decided to go to his mother with my problem.
[05:36.68]One day while we are riding the subway, I ask,
[05:41.03]"What are the reasons you picked me to watch Sam?"
[05:44.45]34 "What kind of question is that?" Ann says.
[05:48.77]35 "I\'m just wondering."
[05:51.29]36 "Because he loves you," she says.
[05:54.57]"You make him laugh. You sing songs with him.
[05:58.64]You\'ve read his favorite book to him a thousand times."
[06:03.53]37 "But I don\'t know how much he weighs.
[06:06.49]And I never can keep track of how many months old he is."
[06:10.66]38 "So what?" she says.
[06:12.79]"I trust you. Besides, you guys are great friends."
[06:17.75]39 The train comes to a stop and Ann gets off.
[06:22.87]"Have fun, you guys," she calls back. Next to us,
[06:27.91]an old woman asks "What\'s his name?" "Sam."
[06:32.80]I start to tell her that I\'m his nanny,
[06:36.47]but then I remember what Ann just said.
[06:39.35]40 "I\'m his best friend," I say.
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[00:00.00]，就把hxen.com复制到QQ个人资料中！A Male Nanny
[00:01.98]1 The woman next to me in the bread cafe
[00:06.55]on 67th Street wants to know how much my baby weighs.
[00:11.09]I don\'t tell her that he\'s not my baby because I\'m tired of explaining.
[00:17.17]Instead, I look at Sam\'s year-old body.
[00:20.70]I have never been good at guessing weight,
[00:24.62]but I know Sam feels awfully heavy when I carry him around the city all day.
[00:29.81]2 "Forty pounds," I tell her, none too confidently.
[00:34.63]3 "Forty," she says. "I don\'t think so.
[00:38.59]Try somewhere around twenty."
[00:40.97]4 Sam twists in my arms and I look at my watch.
[00:45.54]Ann, his mom, is due back from her hair appointment any minute.
[00:50.47]In the meantime, I bounce Sam, sip my coffee and wait.
[00:56.56]5 "Honestly," the woman says to her friend,
[00:59.54]"What kind of parent doesn\'t know how much his child weighs?"
[01:03.72]6 I want to tell her that I\'m Sam\'s nanny,
[01:07.90]but I don\'t because I\'m a guy — a "nanny",
[01:12.76]you might say. Whenver someone learns that I\'m taking care of Sam,
[01:17.90]they turn on me — telling me not to bounce him too much or he\'ll throw up,
[01:23.59]demanding that I give him another bottle of milk.
[01:26.69]7 I have two younger sisters.
[01:29.53]I was a summer camp counselor for five years.
[01:33.28]I had a girlfriend with young nephews.
[01:36.19]I read the books What to Expect the First Year
[01:40.66]and What to Expect the Toddler Years.
[01:44.51]My experience with kids is probably just as good as,
[01:49.33]if not better than, any high school girl who watches kids.
[01:53.69]Still, I\'m not the one thing almost everyone thinks I should be for this job
[02:00.46]— a woman.
[02:01.82]8 When I look up, Ann is walking through the door.
[02:05.82]She kisses Sam, then looks at me. "How was he?"
[02:10.57]9 "Fine," I tell her. "How much does he weigh?"
[02:14.68]10 "Twenty-three pounds. Why?"
[02:17.30]11 "No reason." I say.
[02:19.86]12 I\'m sitting on a bench at the playground,
[02:23.28]eating a chicken salad next to four woman nannies, all twice my age.
[02:28.28]Sam is now a year and a half old,
[02:31.63]big enough to cross the playground\'s bouncy bridge himself.
[02:35.70]I watch him and the other children jump up and down.
[02:39.44]13 "I didn\'t get paid until last Thursday" one woman says.
[02:43.98]She takes a bite of her sandwich.
[02:47.00]"Olive tried to cheat me on the extra hours I worked."
[02:51.43]Everyone nods, sympathetically.
[02:54.56]14 "You guys get extra pay?" I ask.
[02:58.99]15 "After 40 hours a week," someone says.
[03:02.38]"Don\'t you pay your nanny that way?" one of them asks me.
[03:07.24]16 "No," I tell them. "I AM the nanny."
[03:10.80]17 They stare at me with suspicion.
[03:13.32]18 Is it really that big of a deal?
[03:16.56]Women are soldiers, truck drivers, and construction workers.
[03:21.82]Why can\'t a man be a nanny?
[03:23.90]I began watching Sam as a favor to Ann when I was in graduate school.
[03:29.56]Before I knew it, though,
[03:31.61]I slipped into the nanny position almost full time.
[03:35.21]It\'s a job I like, and it helped pay for school.
[03:39.46]But why does everyone have a problem with it?
[03:42.91]19 Insulted,
[03:45.18]I throw my lunch into the trash barrel and let Sam lead me to the swings.
[03:49.97]I tell him to hold tight, and back and forth he goes.
[03:54.94]20 "How old is he?" the woman at the next swing wants to know.
[04:00.52]She has a French accent and looks to have much energy to be a new mother.
[04:07.39]21 "About 17 months." I say. "And I\'m 324 months."
[04:13.48]22 She gives me a wary smile.
[04:16.54]Her baby is in the bucket swing,
[04:18.98]big brown eyes and wild curly hair.
[04:18.99]23 "She looks like you," I tell you.
[04:21.83]24 "Thanks," she says. "He has your blue eyes."
[04:26.44]25 "Oh, no. He\'s not mine. I\'m his nanny."
[04:31.48]26 She keeps pushing her baby. "A male nanny,"she says. "How unique."
[04:37.96]27 We look at the children, and I feel better.
[04:41.31]Across the playground, a girl falls off the bottom of the slide
[04:45.95]and bursts into tears.
[04:48.33]One of the nannies I lunched with rushes over and picks her up
[04:52.87]and brushes dirt from her knees.
[04:55.53]28 "Do you think she\'s all right?" I ask.
[04:58.27]29 "She\'s fine," the French woman says.
[05:01.11]"Kids fall all the time."
[05:03.74]30 But then Sam lets go of the swing.
[05:06.80]He flies into the air and lands face down in the dirt.
[05:11.84]31 "Sam!" I scream. I pick him up and wipe the dirt from his face.
[05:18.28]He looks like he is going to cry but laughs instead.
[05:23.03]32 "You know," the woman says.
[05:25.34]"If you\'re going to take care of him,you really should be more careful."
[05:29.41]33 Sam is almost 2 now.
[05:32.65]I\'ve decided to go to his mother with my problem.
[05:36.68]One day while we are riding the subway, I ask,
[05:41.03]"What are the reasons you picked me to watch Sam?"
[05:44.45]34 "What kind of question is that?" Ann says.
[05:48.77]35 "I\'m just wondering."
[05:51.29]36 "Because he loves you," she says.
[05:54.57]"You make him laugh. You sing songs with him.
[05:58.64]You\'ve read his favorite book to him a thousand times."
[06:03.53]37 "But I don\'t know how much he weighs.
[06:06.49]And I never can keep track of how many months old he is."
[06:10.66]38 "So what?" she says.
[06:12.79]"I trust you. Besides, you guys are great friends."
[06:17.75]39 The train comes to a stop and Ann gets off.
[06:22.87]"Have fun, you guys," she calls back. Next to us,
[06:27.91]an old woman asks "What\'s his name?" "Sam."
[06:32.80]I start to tell her that I\'m his nanny,
[06:36.47]but then I remember what Ann just said.
[06:39.35]40 "I\'m his best friend," I say.
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