act1 第一幕

　　(序幕结束时,jm作窃听状)

　　jm(拄拐棍上):i can!

　　(对门内)lunch! lunch! where are you?

　　l(扎着围裙,拿着锅铲,从门内跳出来):i’m here! what’s up ，mum?

　　jm:i have told you again and again that you should call me “my most beautiful graceful and dearest mother in law”.

　　l:ok.my most beautiful graceful and dearest mother-in-law, what’s up?

　　jm:since you married my son you have be havedso badly.you have been so rude, so brusque,so

　　lazy……

　　l:but……

　　jm:never interrupt me!

　　l:never interrupt me! since i married your son, that terrible johnny,i have been working hard all

　　daylong,cooking and washing. i have raised tens of thousands of pigs and ducks and chicken

　　and……

　　jm:but all those you have done arenot asvaluable as a grandson!

　　l(生气地挥动着锅铲):oh,you want a grandson,don’t you?(开始解围裙)go and ask your son. i’m leaving!(扯下围裙,扔在jm的脸上,下)

　　act2

　　(lm坐在台上打毛线,l拿着锅铲上)

　　l:mum, i’m back!

　　lm:you are back?why?what happened?

　　l:i was kicked out by my most beautiful graceful and dearest mother–in-law.

　　lm(惊讶,但随即露出幸灾乐祸的神情):see! i have already told you! when you insisted on

　　marrying that terrible johnny, i told you that he is ugly tupid and poor, but you did not listen

　　to me. look at yourself……

　　l:but,mum……

　　lm:never interrupt me!

　　l:mum,i’m not interrupting you. i just want to tell you that you are always right ok? and

　　i’ll marry whomever you want me to.

　　lm(大喜):nice girl! just now, i met the mayor’s son in the market.he said:“if your daughter

　　haven’t been married,i really really want to marry her!”now you are free again, i ’ll go

　　and tell him.(下)

　　l(惊愕):what? the mayor’s son?the most famous playboy in the neighbor-hood? (手中的锅

　　铲掉在地上)what a silly thing i have done!(下)