ACT 2-1  “做母親可真不容易。”

【故事梗概】

星期六的早上，Ellen和Marilyn在一起照看Max。Marilyn講起了帶Max去打針的故事。

Ellen: [She puts Max's teddy bear in his playpen.]There's your teddy bear, Max. He just loves that teddy bear that Grandpa Philip bought for him.Marilyn: I took him to Philip's office yesterday for a checkup. You should have seen the look on his face when Molly gave him the injection.Ellen: Oh, did he cry?Marilyn: No. My dear little boy just looked up at me as if to say,“Mama, what are they doing to me? Help!”Ellen: How did you feel? Tell the truth. Didn't you feel terrible?Marilyn: I sure did. I held him closely. I kissed the top of his dear little head. He looked up at me. He tried to smile. Being with him helped.Ellen: Helped him? Or helped you?Marilyn: Being a mother is not easy, if that's what you mean.

【語言點精講】

1. He just loves that teddy bear that Grandpa Philip bought for him.他就是喜歡祖父Philip給他買的這只玩具熊。

2. I took him to Philip's office yesterday for a checkup. You should have seen the look on his face when Molly gave him the injection.我昨天帶他去菲利普的診室里去檢查身體。當莫莉給他注射的時候，他臉上的那表情，可惜你沒看見。checkup: 身體檢查。should have done sth.: 表示本應該做某事，但是沒有做成。常含有遺憾、責備等感情色彩。injection: 注射。

3. Tell me the truth. Didn't you feel terrible?實話告訴我，你沒感到很害怕嗎？tell me the truth: 和我說實話。告訴我實話。

4. Being with him helped.這句話中，being是動名詞，充當句子的主語。但這句話因為helped后面沒有賓語，所以意思就模棱兩可了，因此Ellen才問: “Helped him? Or helped you?”如果說: “My being with him helped.”就可以明白是helped him.

5. Being a mother is not easy, if that's what you mean.做母親可真不容易，也許你是這個意思。