A:我很少聽見她的孩子吵架。
B:Why do you say that?
B:你怎么這么說?
A:Because her children have been the age when they seem to quarrel all day long.
A:因為她的孩子正值整天要吵架的年齡。
B:Oh, I see. She told me that she had learned very quickly how to pour oil on troubled waters, but not to pour oil on the flame.
B:噢,明白了。她給我說她學會了一套調停爭端的本領,而不讓事情更進一步的發(fā)展。
A:She is a clever mother.
A:她可真是個聰嘴的媽媽。