文档介绍：性格(介绍人性格的对话)
2. Character [?k?rikt?]
Beginner
A: Do you like Barry?
B: No, not very much. He's too ambitious and dishonest.
A: I agree. I like his brother Paul. They are not alike.
B: Yes. They pletely different. Paul is very sociable and much more honest
than his brother.
A: What kind of person do you consider yourself to be?
B: I think I'm polite, careful, relaxed and shy.
A: Oh, I don't think you're shy! You are always chatting with new people when we
go to a party.
B: Well. Yes, but those people always start talking to me. I never talk to them first.
Perhaps I'm not as shy as I think. Anyway, you're certainly not shy!
A: You're right. I love going out and making new friends.
B: So, you'll be at my birthday party on Friday?
A: Of course!
words
ambitious [?m?bi??s] ;野心勃勃的
( having a strong desire for ess or achievement )
She is an ambitious woman. 她是一个雄心勃勃的女人。
sociable 好交际的;善交际的(friendly and pleasant)
Adler was an outgoing, sociable kind of man.
艾德勒是一个爽直的、好交际的人。
Intermediate
A: How do you think people get their personalities?
B: I think it's mainly from the environment a person lives in.
A: Don't you think people get their personalities from their parents?
B: No, but parents control a lot of the environment that kids grow up in,
so they certainly influence their kid's personalities a lot.
A: So why do you think many kids have personalities that are so different from
their parents.
B: Maybe when they e teenagers, they want to pletely different to
their parents.
A: You might be right. I guess most parents want their kids to be like them, but
kids today grow up in a different environment. You know, they know much more
about the world from the , newspapers, and tv.
B: Do you think that teenagers get a lot of their bad behaviour from tv and movies?
A: Maybe some of it. I think a lot of people blame TV and movies when the real problem is that the parents aren’t bringing their child up correctly.