每個國家的風俗都有所不同，談一談與外國人談戀愛遇到的問題

今天的這段對話，在討論跨國婚姻，
 
每個國家的風俗都有所不同，談一談與外國人談戀愛遇到的問題
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: if you can choose, will you marry a foreigner or a Chinese?
 
如果讓你選的話，你是愿意嫁給一個中國人還是一個外國人？
 
B: why? Did tom pop the question?
 
為什么這么問，湯姆向你求婚了嗎？
 
A: not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents’ consent.
 
沒有，我怕父母不同意。
 
B: let me guess, your parents want you to marry a Chinese man, right?
 
我猜猜，你父母一定是想你嫁一個中國人，對嗎？
 
A: you are right. It is giving me a real headache. I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place.
 
是啊，我正頭疼呢，我覺得左右為難。
 
B: I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.
 
我和以前的男朋友談戀愛時，也遇到了同樣的問題。
 
A: oh, how did you deal with it?
 
那你怎么解決的？
 
B: I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.
 
我就順其自然，繼續(xù)和我的韓國男朋友約會，但是后來我們還是分手了。
 
A: oh, it’s a pity. What was the matter?
 
太可惜了，為什么??？
 
B: simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.
 
很簡單，我們性格不合，雙方文化也有很多不同之處。
 
A: like what?
 
比如呢？
 
B: he hoped to live in the Korean way and asked me to give up working and stay at home to take care of the family.
 
他希望我過韓式的生活，要求我放棄工作，安心待在家里。
 
A: Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.
 
這樣啊，在他們的文化里，女性應該以家庭為重。
 
B: yes, he said it would be batter for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.
 
是啊，他說這樣對我，對整個家庭都好。但是我就是不想辭掉工作。
 
A: so that's why it’s hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.
 
所以和外國人結(jié)婚，很難幸福。
 
B: not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.
 
也不一定，我們周圍不也有很多成功的例子嘛。