口語式短文：幫忙做家事

Doing family chores ：

•  Every morning when I am still lying in bed, our family chores have already started. Mom or Dad goes out to buy breakfast and newspaper, while the other one at home prepares fresh milk and fruit for breakfast.

• 每天早上我還賴在床上時，家事已經開始了。爸媽其中一人去買早餐及報紙，另一人則在家準備早餐的鮮奶及水果。

•  After getting up, I fold the quilt and make up the bed. And then I prepare my lunch box and water bottle for school.

• 我起床後，要折被子及整理床鋪，然後準備帶去學校的便當袋及水壺。

•  It's usually Mom who's responsible for cleaning up the mess from breakfast. And then we three take turns to dump the litter and take reusable materials to recycling bins.

• 媽通常負責收拾早餐所產生的垃圾，然後我們三人輪流倒垃圾以及把回收物拿到回收桶。

•  After taking me back home in the afternoon, before I begin my piano practice, Dad usually first prepares some fruit for me to eat, and takes advantage of time to wash and cook rice and to retrieve and fold clothes.

• 爸爸下午接我回家後，在我開始練琴前，他通常會先準備水果讓我吃，並趁空檔洗米煮飯及收摺衣服。

•  We usually eat dinner cooked by Mom at home. When Dad and I are having dinner, Mom would first clean up the oil stains in the kitchen.

• 我們通常在家裡吃媽媽煮的晚餐，爸和我吃晚餐時，媽媽會先把廚房的油污清乾淨。

•  After dinner, Dad is responsible for doing the dishes, cleaning up the table, and handling the leftovers. Now I always wash my lunch box by myself. Sometimes I forget about it, and Dad will wash it for me when he's doing the dishes.

• 晚餐後，爸爸負責洗碗、清理餐桌、處理廚餘。我現在都自己清洗餐袋，有時忘記了，爸爸也會在洗碗時順便幫我清洗。

•  Mom and Dad take turns to mop floors every day. And every other days they will first vacuum the floors before mopping them. When Dad's having classes at night, Mom would ask me to help her mop the floors.

• 爸和媽每天輪流拖地板，並且每隔幾天會先用吸塵器吸過地板後再拖地。爸晚上有課時，媽會叫我幫她拖地。

•  Every day before taking bath, Mom will clean up the bathtub, washbasin, and toilet seat. And Dad will do the last chore in one day – hanging up the clothes for drying.

• 媽每天都會在洗澡前先清洗浴缸、洗臉台及馬桶座，爸則負責完成每天最後的家事 — 晾衣服。

•  Sometimes I will help Dad hang up the clothes. First I hang the dehydrated clothes on hangers and use clothes clips to clip them, then Dad will hang them up on the clothes rack.

• 我有時也會幫爸爸晾衣服，我先把脫好水的衣服掛在衣掛上用夾子夾好，然後爸爸把它們掛在晾衣杆上。

發表時間：2009/12/8 著作人：周國華老師