A：Alice, your father is amazing. He’s 90 years old and he lives alone in that big house.艾麗斯，你的爸爸可真行! 他九十歲了，還一個(gè)人住那么大的房子。

B：I know. He doesn’t like to ask anyone for help. My dad insists on paying his own bills and taking care of himself!我知道，他不喜歡求助任何人。我爸爸堅(jiān)持自己支付帳單，自己照顧自己!

A：That sounds like my Grandmother. She was always stubbornly independent.那聽起來倒像我奶奶。她總是極其自立。

B：It seems that folks like my father and your grandmother are determined to be on their own.好像像我爸爸和你奶奶那樣的人注定是要自力更生的。

A：They see their independence as a kind of character strength.他們把他們的獨(dú)立性看作是一種性格堅(jiān)強(qiáng)。

B：Sometimes they are too independent.有時(shí)候他們也太獨(dú)立了。