IELTS Speaking Part 2: Describe a Piece of Advice You Received (Band 7.0)

Now, I'm going to give you a topic,

现在我给你一个话题，

and I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes.

请你就这个话题讲一到两分钟。

Describe a piece of advice you received.

描述一个你收到过的建议。

You have one minute to think about what you'd like to say.

你有一分钟时间想想要说什么。

Thank you. I know exactly what to talk about!

谢谢。我很清楚要讲什么！

All right? Please start speaking now.

好了吗？请开始讲。

I'd like to talk about some advice from my aunt,

我想讲讲我阿姨给我的一个建议，

who runs a small bakery in my hometown.

她在我老家开了一家小面包店。

She's the kind of person who always tells you the truth!

她是那种总会对你说实话的人！

I received it about three years ago,

我是大约三年前得到这个建议的，

when I'd just started university.

那时我刚上大学。

I'd never lived away from home before,

我以前从来没离开家生活过，

and the city felt enormous and lonely.

那座城市让我觉得又大又孤单。

Everyone in my class seemed far cleverer than me.

班上每个人看起来都比我聪明得多。

While they were asking smart questions,

他们在提一些很聪明的问题时，

I was secretly thinking about dropping out.

我却在偷偷想着要退学。

One night, I called my aunt in tears,

有一天晚上，我哭着给阿姨打电话，

and she just listened.

她就只是静静地听着。

When I finally stopped crying, she said something simple.

等我终于不哭了，她说了一句很简单的话。

She told me not to compare my chapter one

她让我不要拿自己的第一章

to someone else's chapter twenty.

去和别人的第二十章比较。

At first, I didn't really understand what she meant!

一开始，我不太明白她是什么意思！

But the next morning, it suddenly made sense.

但第二天早上，我突然就明白了。

The others must have struggled at first too,

其他人一开始肯定也很吃力，

but they simply hid it better!

只是他们藏得比较好！

So I stopped comparing myself, and I joined a study group.

于是我不再拿自己和别人比，还参加了一个学习小组。

By the end of the year, I'd passed every exam,

到了年底，我所有考试都过了，

and I'd made some real friends too!

还交到了真正的朋友！

What I remember most is how calm she sounded,

我记得最清楚的，是她的声音有多平静，

and it calmed me down too.

这也让我平静了下来。

If a friend felt like that today,

如果今天有朋友也有那种感觉，

I'd give them exactly the same advice.

我会给他一模一样的建议。

I just wish I'd called her sooner!

我只希望自己早点给她打电话！

These days, I tutor first-year students who feel lost,

现在我给一些迷茫的大一新生做辅导，

and I always pass her words on.

我总会把她的话转告给他们。

Do you often give advice to other people?

你经常给别人建议吗？

Only when they ask for it!

只有在别人问我的时候！

Unwanted advice is rarely welcome, in my experience.

以我的经验，没人要的建议很少受欢迎。

And is your aunt pleased that it helped?

那你阿姨知道这个建议帮到你，开心吗？

Very! She tells everyone at the bakery about it!

开心极了！她跟面包店里的每个人都说过！

Thank you. That's the end of Part Two.

谢谢。第二部分到此结束。