迷你对话：
A: I seldom heard the quarreling of her children.
我很少听到她的孩子大吵大闹。
B: Why do you say that?
你为什么这么说？
A: Because her children have been the age when they seem to quarrel all day long.
因为她的孩子正值整天要吵架的年龄。
B: Oh, I see. She told me that she had learned very quickly how to pour oil on troubled water, but not to pour oil on the flame.
哦，我明白了。她告诉我学会了一套调停争端的本事，而不是让事情进一步发展。
A: She is a cleaver mother.
她真是个聪明的母亲。
