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山东斯汀
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头衔: 海归准将
声望: 学员
性别:  年龄: 53
加入时间: 2005/09/14
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作者：山东斯汀 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
译错之错，多谢赐教 （插图是NANCY老太太前几天刚发给我的，是她儿子结婚的情景）
序：NANCY是一个加拿大老太太，50多岁，在家操持家务，有时也打打零工，丈夫在铁路部门工作）
你好，斯汀。新年快乐。今天早上刚起床，就收到了你的信，很是高兴。
你们那里的教育体系和这里的有一些不同。这里的小孩子在前12个年级是不需要付费的。
但是他们在进入大学后却要付一笔可观的学费。在这里也不会按出生地分类，不论你出生于农村或城市，都没有任何区别。你也可以自由迁移，都可以生活在你想去的任何区域，也可以做你称职的任何工作。的确，我们这里的孩子和你们那里的孩子有着一个不同的生活方式。
我中间的孩子，KATIE愿意在明年6月高中毕业后上大学。但这有一个前提：她必须打工，自己攒一年的钱，否则她就不能实现。我们也不能担负那么高的学费。实际上，她的学业从来也没好过，每年都是勉强升一级，并且她从来也不怎么喜欢学习。
我想她愿意上大学的唯一原因可能就是她不想出去工作。她知道那将意味着对她的又一次挑战，会更难。
但是我恐怕她在生活中不得不受点苦头。她也不能老和我们生活在一起，我们打算很快退休，孩子们也一定要去走他们自己的路。我最小的女儿，JILLIAN有一个计划，就是成为一名美发师，如果美发课程学不好的话，她就打算成为一名汽车技师。两者都需要更多的花费和学习，她实际上对学习却不怎么上心。她有一个做苦力的男朋友，叫NICK，比她大一岁，才16岁。在森林里干活，整天锯木头，作成木柴，再卖给需要的人。
他还养了100只鸡，还卖鸡蛋。他正在努力增加鸡的数量，好让鸡蛋的产量增加。他从13岁起就这样拼命的干活。他也坚持上学，并沉迷于摔交，举重和足球。他也自己玩吉他，并且还教我女儿。 我的大儿子TIM，刚交了一个女朋友，她在比萨饼店上班，比我儿子大几个月。
TIM喜欢她喜欢的要命，尽管他才和她出去交往了一个月，但他已经有了结婚的浪漫计划。TIM烦透了他现在的工作，希望能尽快获得提升或找到更好的工作。他是一个调查员，每天的任务就是呆在商店或超市里逮扒手。他有时候也在大街上逮保险骗子。在加拿大，有一些人经常以各种借口从保险公司骗钱，他们通常宣称自己有病，不能上班，实际上却什么事没有。
TIM的工作就是拿着摄象机，在他们称自己行动不便，卧床，不能干活的时候，拍他们类似于修理屋顶，砍木头等劳作的场景。是的，我很乐意去听你旅行时的见闻，和其他一些与城市人不同的小村庄的一些生活方式。我第一次上网是在1995年，我非常高兴与遍布世界各地的笔友交流，了解不同的国家和风俗，这极大的增长了我的见识。所有的这一切都非常有意思。
告诉我你家里的情况？你住在什么地方？建筑是什么样子？你的兄弟姐妹的相关情况？你的邻居怎么样？并且我也会告诉－－－－－－－－－－我能看到的－－－－－－－－你想要了解的任何事情。如果我所写得有不明之处，我也希望你能指出来，以便我更清晰的表述，或许你会理解的更好。
我很高兴于我们深厚的友谊，斯汀，也坚信我们会交往的更好。等你，再见。
Hi, sting. Happy New Year. So nice to receive your informative letter this morning when I got up. You really have a different way of schooling there. Here no child has to pay to go to school for the first 12 grades, but they do have a large tuition fee to get into college or university for studies. No one is singled out as to where they live and it makes no difference if you are country born or city born. You can move , live or work anywhere you want at anything that you are qualified to work at. Yes, it sure is a different way of life from what our children have here.
My middle child, Katie would like to go to university after she graduates from High School next June, but unless she works, & saves for a year herself she won't be able to, we just can't afford to pay for the high tuition fees. She never did that well in school anyway, just barely passing to the next grade each year and never liking school that much. I think the only reason that she does want to go to University is that she doesn't want to get out there and work., she knows that that will be harder for her. But I'm afraid that she'll have to do some things in life that will be hard. She won't be able to always live with us, we are wanting to retire soon and the children will have to make their own way in life.
My youngest girl, Jillian, has a plan that she will be a hairdresser, her secondary plan will be auto mechanic if she doesn't do well with the hairdressing course. Both will require more schooling and studying... she's not good with studying. She has a boyfriend that is a hard worker. His name is Nick, he's a year older than her, 16, and he works in the woods - chopping trees - and making firewood - and delivering it to people's homes for them. He also has 100 chickens and sells eggs. He is adding on to his coop and getting more chicks in the springtime, so will be increasing his egg production. He's been working hard like this since he was 13. He also is going to school and is interested in wrestling, lifting weights and football. He also plays the guitar and is teaching Jillian how to play hers.
My son, Tim has a new girlfriend, Tammy, she is a few months older than him, and works in a pizza shop. Tim likes her a lot, even though he's only been going out with her for a month, he has romantic plans of marriage with her. Tim is tired of his job and hoping that soon he'll be able to advance or find a better one. He needs to find a better paying job if he is going to make a house for himself and move out of here. Tim is an Investigator.
He works every day in stores and shops catching shoplifters. He also works on the road sometimes to catch insurance fraud. People who try to steal money from the insurance companies by saying that they are sick and can't work, when they aren't sick at all. Tim is one that video tapes them fixing their roof, or chopping wood when they are supposed to be on crutches, or in bed, or unable to do these things. Yes, I would be very interested in learning more about your travels. And about the different life styles of a small village as opposed to the life of a city person. We here first went on the Internet in 1995.
I have enjoyed it a lot and through emails with pals around the world have increased my knowledge of the world and its different countries and their customs. It's all so very interesting. Tell me also about your home, where you live, what the building is like About your brothers & sisters and what they do in life for work and where they live What your neighbours are like And I'll tell you anything that you want to know about my life around here as I see it.
If there is anything that I write that you don't understand I hope that you will question that too, so that I may try to express and explain it clearer to you so that you may understand better. I am enjoying our friendship very much Sting and think that we are going to get along very well. Until next time... bye bye.
作者：山东斯汀 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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