兰西说：“在孩子们6岁或7岁之前，我们总是拒绝他们帮忙做家务的想法。后来许多孩子逐渐失去了帮忙的欲望，我们就只能用奖励零花钱来激励他们做家务。”

"We deny our children's bids to help until they are 6 or 7 years old," Lancy says, "when many have lost the desire to help and then try to motivate them with payment."

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也就是说，事实上唯一给我们家里打电话的人是我们婴儿潮世代的父母。所以我们会玩一个游戏，在拿起电话之前猜是谁在打电话（使用来电显示功能会让游戏失去乐趣）。

That said, to be honest the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone (using Caller ID would take the fun out of it).

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这也使我更难以接受这种想法：在完成它的生命图画之前，我们会失去这种生物。

It makes it all the harder for me to accept the thought that we may lose this creature before its life picture can be completed.

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