Todd: So Kate, can you talk about growing up in New Zealand, what it’s like?
托德：凯特，你能谈谈在新西兰长大是什么感受吗？
Todd: So Kate, can you talk about growing up in New Zealand, what it’s like?
托德：凯特，你能谈谈在新西兰长大是什么感受吗？
Kate: Growing up in New Zealand is very free. Kids have a lot more freedom that kids in other countries: we can.. obviously we go to school from 5 years and until 16 years old you must go to school, but when we come home from school there’s our parents there. They’re very loving and caring, in general that is. And we have a lot of lawns, a lot of scenery, landscapes that we can run around on.
凯特：在新西兰长大感觉很自由。相比其他国家的孩子，新西兰的小孩有更多的自由：我们可以……当然我们在5岁到16岁必须要去学校上学，不过我们从学校回到家的时候，父母会在家里等我们。基本来说父母都很关爱孩子。新西兰有很多草坪，很多美景，我们可以四处玩耍。
Todd: What kind of things did you do when you were little, like games and sports?
托德：你小的时候都做什么事情，比如玩游戏还是进行体育运动？
Kate: Sports.
凯特：运动。
Todd: Oh sports, what sports?
托德：哦，运动，什么运动呢？
Kate: I started off with ballet and I got really bored with ballet. I went to gymnastics and that was my main sport when I was growing up.
凯特：我开始学了芭蕾，不过后来我厌倦了芭蕾。所以我就练了体操，那是我成长过程中主要进行的体育运动。
Todd: Oh wow you were a gymnast? What events did you do?
托德：哦哇，原来你是体操运动员啊？你参加了什么赛事？
Kate: Events? Well you have levels: competition levels, so you start from level 3 and I went up to level 7 and next level would have been very competitive, it’s called ‘junior elite’. Had I continued I would have probably stopped school and concentrated on gymnastics only.
凯特：赛事？其实体操是有级别的：竞争级别，从级别三开始，我后来达到了级别七，下一个级别称为“优秀青年”，更具竞争性。如果我要继续练，那我就必须停止学业，专心练体操。