Hints:

gather


intervention

pokey


What is the thing you said, in this month's Family Circle, is it there is power in numbers? Right? So, when you are approaching your neighbor, what should you do? Yeah, I mean sometimes it does help to gather up some troops and, just to get some support from your fellow neighbors, but you have to be sensitive that you are not ganging up on your next door neighbor. Right, you don't want to be in an intervention or something like that. What about nosy neighbors? I mean somebody, you know you feel they are always coming around, checking out your every move. Well, I think a lot of the time people mistake some behavior for being nosey or pokey when the neighbor is just trying to be friendly or maybe the person is lonely. So, you just have to see what the motive is, and oftentimes, if you are a little distant, or you just don't answer their questions, they often take the hint and back off.
在这个月的《家庭天地》你谈论的主题是什么？是多数人的力量，对吧？那么，当你准备与你的邻居协商处理，应该怎么做呢？ 嗯，是的。我是说召集一个小团队，或者是获得一些其他邻居们的支持，有时候会起到一点作用。但是你必须敏感点，你不是在合伙对付你旁边的邻居。当然，你不想被卷入调停之类的纠纷吧。 那些好管闲事的邻居呢？我是指那些总是登门拜访，问这问那的人。 嗯，我觉得很多人会把一些行为误认为是爱管闲事或者是迟钝，其实那个邻居只是想要示好，或者他太孤独了。所以，你需要弄清楚他们的动机，大多数时候，如果你表现的疏远，或者不回答他们的问题，他们就会知趣地走开了。