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Lesson 15 · A Conversation on the Way Home

文体：带对话的亲身经历 · 朗读音轨 15

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听听主人公一开始如何帮妈妈，后来又改变了什么。

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My mother was unusually quiet on the walk home. When I asked about her day, she said a project at work had gone wrong. I immediately gave her three ideas for fixing it.

She smiled a little. “Thank you, but I have already made a plan. Could you just walk with me?”

For a while, we listened to the sound of our shoes. Then she told me which part had been hardest: she had to tell a teammate about the mistake. I did not have an answer for that, so I asked what the teammate had said.

By the time we reached home, she was talking normally again. I had not solved her problem. I had finally listened to the one she wanted to describe.

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My mother was unusually quiet on the walk home.
When I asked about her day, she said a project at work had gone wrong.
I immediately gave her three ideas for fixing it.
She smiled a little.
“Thank you, but I have already made a plan.
Could you just walk with me?”
For a while, we listened to the sound of our shoes.
Then she told me which part had been hardest: she had to tell a teammate about the mistake.
I did not have an answer for that, so I asked what the teammate had said.
By the time we reached home, she was talking normally again.
I had not solved her problem.
I had finally listened to the one she wanted to describe.

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回家的路上，妈妈比平时安静。我问她今天怎么样，她说工作中的一个项目出了问题。我立刻给她提了三个解决办法。

她微微一笑：‘谢谢，不过我已经想好该怎么办了。你能只陪我走走吗？’

有一阵子，我们只是听着彼此的脚步声。后来她说出了最难的部分：她得把失误告诉一位同事。对此我没有现成的答案，就问那位同事说了什么。

到家时，妈妈又像平常一样说话了。我没有替她解决问题，终于听清了她真正想说的事。

本课重点词语

以下是本课重点词语的中文讲解；英文正文中有虚线的单词可悬停查看词义和发音。

unusually: 不同寻常地；妈妈那天比平时安静。
go wrong: 出问题；a project had gone wrong 指工作项目出了差错。
immediately: 立刻；叙述者还没听完就提出办法。
fix: 修复、解决；fix a problem 是设法处理问题。
for a while: 一阵子；两人暂时没有说话，只听见脚步声。
the hardest part: 最难的部分；不是想方案，而是向同事说明失误。
teammate: 同事、队友；与妈妈一起做项目的人。
mistake: 错误、失误；项目中发生的问题。
reach home: 到家；叙述者在回家时发现妈妈恢复了平时的语气。
describe: 描述；妈妈想说清自己经历的难处。

背景知识

遇到难题的人有时需要办法，有时只希望有人先听自己说。妈妈直接提出‘陪我走走’，叙述者便从急着 fix（解决）改为认真 listen（倾听）。按顺序看人物的行动，能读出两人心情的变化。

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