地道美语听力播客830: 惩罚孩子（双语）

Yuki: What are you doing?
友希：你在干什么？
Al: I’m getting ready to give Charlie a spanking for beating up his classmate. He has to learn that there are serious consequences for his actions.
艾尔：我准备好了要教训查理一顿，他殴打了他的同班同学。他必须得知道，自己的错误行为会招致严重后果。
Yuki: You’re punishing him for beating someone by giving him a beating? That doesn’t make sense. Our response shouldn’t be an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
友希：你想通过打他一顿来教训他不应该打人？这行不通啊。我们的教育方式不应该是以牙还牙以眼还眼。
Al: I’m not going to beat him. This isn’t going to be a flogging. I’m going to give him a simple spanking.
艾尔：我不会打他的。我不会真的鞭打他一顿，不过就是随便打他屁股几下而已。
Yuki: Corporal punishment isn’t the answer. We can give him a severe punishment without resorting to violence.
友希：体罚不是正确的做法，我们不必非要诉诸武力来给他们严厉的惩罚。
Al: What kind of punishment? Withholding his allowance or taking away his toys? Those don’t seem severe enough to me.
艾尔：什么样的惩罚？克扣他的零用钱还是拿走他的玩具？在我看来，这些可都不够严厉。
Yuki: We could ground him for a month, only allowing him to go to school.
友希：可以禁足一个月，只允许他去上学。
Al: That still doesn’t seem to be enough.
艾尔：还是不够严厉。
Yuki: All right, we can pull out the big guns then. We could have him spend the weekend with your mother and ask her to talk some sense into him. He’s scared of your mother.
友希：好吧，那就只好使出杀手锏了。可以让他去你妈妈那里过周末，并且请你妈妈给他讲讲大道理。他很怕你妈妈。
Al: I’m scared of my mother. Do you think it would work?
艾尔：我怕我妈妈。你觉得那会有用吗？
Yuki: If I were a 10-year-old and I had to face your angry and disapproving mother for an entire weekend, I’d be quaking in my boots!
友希：如果我是个10岁的孩子，要整个周末面对你妈妈那张气愤又埋怨人的脸，我一定会吓得颤抖的。