Dear listeners, for today's show, I have with my colleague, Mary Laney. She has been a radio TV reporter for many years. Mary, welcome to our show.
亲爱的听众朋友们,今天的节目我邀请到了我的同事玛丽·兰尼,她做广播电视记者有很多年了。玛丽,欢迎来到我们的节目。
It's a pleasure to be here.
很高兴来到这里。
Would you please tell our listeners who most influenced your decision to become a reporter?
能不能告诉听众朋友们对你成为记者的决定影响最大的是谁呢?
Both my parents had a great influence upon my choices of work. Instead of trying to pick out a job for me, they helped me learn those things that led me to it.
我的父母对我工作的选择有很大的影响,他们没有帮我选工作,而是教我怎么去选。
How did they do that?
他们是怎么教你的?
My father always told me that an education was one of the greatest advantages I could have, one that would always stay with me. He used to tell me that readers were leaders, and encouraged me to read all I could. As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.
我父亲总是告诉我教育是我所拥有的最大优势之一、一个永远陪伴着我的优势。他曾告诉我说读者就是领导者,他鼓励我要尽我所能地去阅读。后来,我会去追每期的报纸;我成了新闻杂志的忠实读者;我学会了真正去享受书籍。所有的这些对我的广播和电视报道都是无价的帮助。
What about your mother?
那你妈妈呢?
Well, my mother helped me in a much different way.
嗯,我妈妈帮助我的方式大不相同。