A:Alice, your father is amazing. He’s 90 years old and he lives alone in that big house.
艾麗斯,你的爸爸可真行! 他九十歲了,還一個人住那么大的房子。
B:I know. He doesn’t like to ask anyone for help. My dad insists on paying his own bills and taking care of himself!
我知道,他不喜歡求助任何人。我爸爸堅持自己支付帳單,自己照顧自己!
A:That sounds like my Grandmother. She was always stubbornly independent.
那聽起來倒像我奶奶。她總是極其自立。
B:It seems that folks like my father and your grandmother are determined to be on their own.
好像像我爸爸和你奶奶那樣的人注定是要自力更生的。
A:They see their independence as a kind of character strength.
他們把他們的獨(dú)立性看作是一種性格堅強(qiáng)。
B:Sometimes they are too independent.
有時候他們也太獨(dú)立了。