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Favorite Relative
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Favorite Relative
最喜爱的亲人

Phrasal Verbs

Date: Jun 14 2021

Themes: Family

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

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We don’t choose our relatives. We’re just born with them, and we have to do our best to get along with them. In fact, we have to love them. They’re family.

Sometimes, that can be a challenge. We all have relatives who just don’t seem to have anything in common with us. But most of us also have at least one relative whom we love to be around and would want to hang out with even if we weren’t related. Hear Amy tell Marni about her favorite relative.

我们无法选择自己的亲人。我们与他们的关系与生俱来,我们必须竭尽所能与他们融洽相处。事实上,我们必须爱他们。他们是我们的家人。
有时候,这的确会成为一种挑战。我们每个人都有似乎与我们毫无共同点可言的亲人。但是,我们大多数人都至少会有那么一位亲人,我们愿意伴其左右,愿意与他或她一起做些什么,即使那些事情与我们毫不相干。请听艾米与玛尼的对话,了解她最喜爱的亲人。

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Amy

Amy

Marni

Marni

Amy:  So you know I’m getting married this summer, right?

Marni:  Yes, I know.

Amy:  So, when you are planning a wedding, you end up having to get in touch with a lot of relatives who you really have very little in common with, and who you maybe haven’t even spoken to in years. But there is one relative that I’m really excited to see at my wedding.

Marni:  Oh yeah? Who’s that?

Amy:  My uncle Dale.

Marni:  Oh, that’s nice when you have a special relationship with somebody. Tell me about your uncle Dale.

Amy:  Well, we don’t really have a lot in common, but we’ve just always gotten along and I really look up to him. He’s a real outdoorsman and so he kind of exposed me to a lot of things that I never would have done if it weren’t for him, like shooting a bow and arrow and fishing and just like being out in the wild. And I, you know, I always appreciated that in a way more than someone else who I might have more in common with.

Marni:  Interesting. So you’re not exactly peas in a pod, but it sounds like you really look up to him.

Amy:  Yeah, he’s a cool guy. He taught me how to play poker and gave me one of my first beers, you know, so…

Marni:  Uncle Dale sounds pretty awesome.

 

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Amy is planning her wedding. There are some relatives she has to invite to the wedding even though she isn’t very close to them. But there is one relative she can’t wait to see: her uncle Dale.

Amy tells Marni why her uncle is her favorite relative. When she was younger, he taught her a lot of things she didn’t know, like how to fish, play poker, and even how to drink beer. She looks up to her uncle and enjoys being with him, even though they don’t have a lot in common.

Who is your favorite relative? Can you describe him or her?

 

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Gorgon

Gorgon

Romania

Yeah, my favorite relative is uncle Viorel. He’s some kind of hippie guy.

06:37 AM Jul 22 2011 |

anitalove

anitalove

Peru

My favorite relative is my uncle Hipolito. For me; He is the most fantastic and  nice  person that I have ever kwen.  He looks  serius and  grouch  but  he`s not. When i remember my childhood; uncle hipolito takes a great and  sweet part of it. 

05:18 AM Jul 22 2011 |

Ange!

Ange!

Chile

My favorites relatives are my nephews. They are very friendly and funny.

05:18 AM Jul 22 2011 |

prakash.fca

India

Having good relative life makes more meaning full.

04:10 AM Jul 22 2011 |

mshare

mshare

Saudi Arabia

yeah,,, of course i think its not necessary you should have a lot in common with a relative of yours to see him much or invite him to your occasions , although there is a kind of , importance or a need for things in common to spend enjoyable time with friends but with relatives i think the situation here disparate , i mean ,you dont have to much in common to look him or her up , just remember some reminiscences happened between you or just when you feel a kind of relaxation and content that’ll be much enough .

01:30 AM Jul 22 2011 |

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