A:你认为人的个性是怎么形成的？
A: How do you think people get their personalities?

B:我觉得主要来自他生活的环境。
B: I think it’s mainly from the environment a person lives in.

A:你不认为人的性格来自父母吗？
A: Don’t you think people get their personalities from their parents?

B:不，我不认为。但父母决定了很多孩子成长的环境，所以他们当然会在很大程度上影响孩子的个性。
B: No, but parents control a lot of the environment that kids grow up in, so they certainly influence their kids’ personalities a lot.

A:那你说为什么许多孩子的性格会和父母很不一样呢？
A: So why do you think many kids have personalities that are so different from their parents’?

B:可能是当他们是青少年时，想和父母不一样吧。
B: Maybe when they become teenagers, they want to be completely different to their parents.

A:可能你是对的。我猜想大部分父母都希望孩子像自己，可现在的孩子生长在一个不同的环境里。要知道，他们从网络、报纸和电视上更多地了解了这个世界。
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 Internet, newspapers, and TV.

B:你认为青少年会从电影和电视上学到很多不良的行为吗？
B: Do you think that teenagers get a lot of their bad behavior from TV and movies?

A:可能有一些吧。我认为，当问题是父母没有正确地教育孩子时，很多人会责怪电视和电影。
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.

B:父母也很难做。他们要抚养孩子，还有工作要做。
B: Parents have a difficult job. They have to bring up their children and usually have to work too.

A:是的。你儿子在学校表现很好吧?
A: Yes, that’s true. Your son is doing well at school, isn’t he?

B:是的。在学校他很努力。从学校回到家，他晚饭前做作业，饭后就和他的伙伴们一起出去。
B: Yes, he is. He’s very hardworking when he’s at school. Then he comes home from school and does his homework before dinner. After dinner, he goes out with his friends.

A:那他不是个书呆子了？性格外向有好处。有些孩子很安静、内向。你都会怀疑，在现实生活中没有父母帮助和支持他们怎么生存下去。
A: So, he’s not a bookworm? It’s good that he has an outgoing personality. Some kids are very quiet and introverted. You wonder how they’ll survive in the real world without their parents to support them.