ChinesePod

Màikè tāmen ya ，tīngshuō qù dōngnányà zhǎo dàilǐyùnmǔ le ，zhēn bù zhīdào tāmen xiǎoliǎngkǒu shì zěnme xiǎng de ，lǐngyǎng háizi yě bùcuò ā ，wèishénme yào mào zhè ge xiǎn ？

I hear that Mike and his partner have gone to Southeast Asia to find a surrogate. I really don't know what the two of them are thinking. Adopting a child is a good option too, why would they run that risk?

Go to Lesson

英雄人物大概都比较风流吧！不过娶了4个老婆，只有原配生了一个蒋经国，蒋纬国还是领养的。貌似老蒋得了花柳病……

yīngxióng rénwù dàgài dōu bǐjiào fēngliú ba ！bùguò qǔ le sì gè lǎopó ，zhǐyǒu yuánpèi shēng le yī gè Jiǎng Jīngguó ，Jiǎng Wěiguó háishì lǐngyǎng de 。màosì LǎoJiǎng dé le huāliǔbìng ……

Great men are almost all promiscuous! However, he married four wives and only his first wife gave birth to Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang Wei-kuo was adopted. It looks as if Old Chiang contracted a venereal disease.

Go to Lesson

阿姨，您没想过领养一个孩子吗？

āyí ，nín méi xiǎng guo lǐngyǎng yī gè háizi ma ？

Auntie, have you considered adopting a child?

Go to Lesson

我们年纪大了，领养不到。就算能，也照顾不了孩子了。我唯一的寄托就是加入了一个QQ群，里面都是失去独生子女的苦命人。只有我们能互相安慰。其他人是没办法明白我们的痛苦的！

wǒmen niánjì dà le ，lǐngyǎng bùdào 。jiùsuàn néng ，yě zhàogu bùliǎo háizi le 。wǒ wéiyī de jìtuō jiùshì jiārù le yī gè QQ qún ，lǐmiàn dōu shì shīqù dúshēngzǐnǚ de kǔmìngrén 。zhǐyǒu wǒmen néng hùxiāng ānwèi 。qítā rén shì méi bànfǎ míngbai wǒmen de tòngkǔ de ！

We're already too old to adopt a child. Even if we could, we wouldn't be able to take care of them. My only source of comfort is a QQ group made up of sad people who lost their only children. Only we can comfort one another. Other people have no way to understand our pain!

Go to Lesson

领养的

lǐngyǎng de

Adopted.

Go to Lesson

在他们国家很难领养到吧。不像我们，每个家庭只能生育一个孩子，有些计划生育外的小孩儿，特别是女孩儿一出生就被亲生父母抛弃了。

zài tāmen guójiā hěn nán lǐngyǎng dào ba 。bù xiàng wǒmen ，měige jiātíng zhǐnéng shēngyù yī ge háizi ，yǒuxiē jìhuàshēngyù wài de xiǎoháir ，tèbié shì nǚháir yī chūshēng jiù bèi qīnshēngfùmǔ pāoqì le 。

It's very hard for them to adopt children in their countries. It's not like us where every family can only have one child. Some kids born despite the one-child policy, especially girls, are abandoned by their parents at birth.

Go to Lesson

对，她出生在湖南。我们是从当地的福利院领养来的。

duì ，tā chūshēng zài Húnán 。wǒmen shì cóng dāngdì de fúlìyuàn lǐngyǎng lái de 。

Yes, she was born in Hunan. We adopted her from the local welfare agency.

Go to Lesson

她是我们刚刚领养的女儿。

tā shì wǒmen gānggang lǐngyǎng de nǚér 。

She’s our newly adopted daughter.

Go to Lesson