A：Hi, Natasha, how's life?嗨，娜塔莎，最近怎么樣?

B：Great. My family came to visit me.挺好的，我家里人來了。

A：Oh, you must be very happy. How many people are there in your family?那你一定很高興了。順便問一下，你們家有幾口人?

B：My immediate family is very large. It's my mother, my father, my two older brothers, my younger sister and me.我的直系親屬很多，有媽媽，爸爸，兩個哥哥，妹妹和我。

A：I have a small family. They are my parents, my younger brother and me.我家人不多。父母，弟弟和我。

B：I thought you were the only child in the family. Didn't China practice the only-child policy in the early 1980s?我以為你是獨生子女呢。中國不是從20世紀80年代早期就開始實行計劃生育政策了嗎?

A：Yes, it did. But my parents are ethnic minority people. It's a preferential policy for an ethnic minority family to have two children.是的，的確是，不過我父母是少數民族的。少數民族極家庭可以享受優(yōu)惠政策生2個孩子。

B：Interesting. What do you think about families with only one child?挺有意思的，那你怎么看待獨生子女家庭呢?

A：The child must feel very longly. My younger brother is 10 years younger than me. Before he was born, I used to be the only child and always dreamed that I would have a younger sister or brother one da我覺得孩子一定很孤獨。我弟弟比我小十歲。他出生之前，我一直是家里的獨生子，那時我一直希望自己能有個弟弟或妹妹。

B：Do you get along well with each other?那你們相處的好嗎?

A：Yes, we are very close. He is 12 years old and very smart. He always makes us laugh a lot.是的，我們倆關系很好。他今年12歲了，很聰明。經常逗得大家笑個不停。

B：You are very lucky to have such a nice family.你真幸運，有這么幸福的家庭。

A：Thank you.謝謝你。