英语晨读｜贴孩子上墙

Sometimes mothers threaten their children. Sometimes it is when they say that they cannot clean or cook because their children are running around, but one mother went too far for this.

有时母亲会威胁她们的孩子。尤其是当孩子们乱跑导致她们没法打扫卫生或做饭，但一位母亲在这方面做得太过火了。

An eighteen-year-old mother from Ohio taped her two-year-old son to a wall. She also taped his mouth, so he could not speak. She even put a video of this on social media.

一位来自俄亥俄州的18岁母亲用胶带把她两岁的儿子粘在了墙上。她还用胶带封住了他的嘴，使他不能说话。她甚至在社交媒体上发布了这段视频。

She said that she needed to do some housework. In the video, you can hear the boy trying to cry.

她说她需要做些家务。在视频中，你可以听到这个男孩极力要哭发出的声音。

The police received information about the video and arrested the mother. The police also took her son away from her, for his own safety.

警方收到了有关视频的信息，并逮捕了这位母亲。为了她儿子的安全，警察也把他带走了。

Difficult words: threaten (when you try to make somebody scared), tape (fix something with sticky tape), arrest (put in prison), receive (get).