英語口語每天說上半小時 087

87.Marriage 婚姻(上)

1.Are you married? 你結(jié)婚了嗎?

2.Do you mind if I ask you whether you are married or not? 你介意我問你是否結(jié)婚了嗎?

3.When are you going to get married? 你們打算什么時候結(jié)婚?

4.When did you get engaged? 你們什么時候訂婚?

5.Will you marry Mary? 你會和瑪麗結(jié)婚嗎?

6.How long have you been married? 你們結(jié)婚多久了?

7.What's your marital status? 你的婚姻狀況怎么樣?

8.When's the wedding ceremony? 婚禮時候時候舉行?

9.Have you given her the engagement ring? 你有送她訂婚戒指嗎?

10.Would you like to stay at home after you get married? 結(jié)婚之后你想待在家里嗎?

Dialogue One

A:I hear you and James are engaged at last.

我聽說你最后和詹姆斯訂婚了。

B:Yes,we are.

是的，我們訂婚了。

A:When are you getting married?

你們什么時候結(jié)婚?

B:In the spring.

春天的時候。

A:Oh,lovely.Where's the wedding going to be?

噢，太好了。婚禮在哪里舉行?

B:Well..we're not sure yet,probably in St.Albans.

額，我們還沒有確定，可能在圣奧爾本。

A:Oh,yes,your parents live there,don't they?

噢，是的，你的父母住在那里，是嗎?

B:Yes,that's right.

是的，沒錯。

A:Where are you going to live after you're married?

你們結(jié)婚之后打算住在哪里?

B:We're going to buy a flat or a small house somewhere in South London.

我們打算在倫敦南部的某個地方買一套公寓或小房子。

A:Are you going to give up your job?

你打算辭了你的工作嗎?

B:Yes,probably but I may look for another one when we're settled in.

是的，可能是，但是我們安定下來之后我可能會找另一份工作。

Dialogue Two

A:Excuse me,how can I fill in this blank?What does "marital status" mean?

打擾了，我要怎么填這個空格?“婚姻狀況”是什么意思?

B:Are you married?

你已婚了嗎?

A:No,I'm still single.

不，我還是單身。

B:Then,you put "S" in this blank.

那么，你在這個空上寫上“S”。

Dialogue Three

A:Miss Wang,would you mind my asking you a personal question?

王小姐，你介意我問你一個私人問題嗎?

B:No ,not at all.Go ahead.

不，一點也不介意。請問。

A:Are you married?

你結(jié)婚了嗎?

B:Yes.Is that so important?

是的。這很重要嗎?

A:Frankly yes.We like to employ married people.By the way,do you have any children?

坦白說，是的。我們想雇已婚人士。順便問一下，你有孩子嗎?

B:Yes,I have a three-year-old son.

是的，我有一個三歲大的兒子。

溝通與美滿婚姻

Most of people want to marry and have a happy life.However,marriage is complicated.If you couldn't cope with some problems,your marital life will fail.my husband and I have been married for nearly two years.For the first 18 months of our marriage we were very happy,but lately he seems to have become more interested in his work than in me.He works overtime almost every night and in the weekends he often brings homework to do from his office.He doesn't seem to be unhappy but he really enjoys his work.I feel lonely and unhappy.Later,I begin to change my attitudes and I often talk to my husband and find out what he thinks.Little by little,we have the mutual understanding and live a happy life again.So I think mutual understanding is very important to marital life.Do you think so?

很多人想結(jié)婚，過幸福的生活。然而，婚姻是復(fù)雜的。如果你不能解決一些問題，你的婚姻生活將會失敗。我和我丈夫結(jié)婚近兩年。我們結(jié)婚后的前18個月，我們還很幸福，但是之后他似乎對工作比對我有興趣。他幾乎每晚都加班，周末他經(jīng)常從辦公室?guī)Щ毓ぷ鱽碜?。他似乎很幸福，但是他真的很喜歡他的工作。我感到孤獨、不開心。之后，我開始轉(zhuǎn)變態(tài)度，我經(jīng)常和我丈夫交談，了解他在想什么。漸漸地，我們互相理解，生活幸福。所以我認(rèn)為互相理解對婚姻生活來說是很重要的。你這樣認(rèn)為嗎?

Marriage 婚姻(下)

1.It's a hasty marriage. 這是一個草率的婚姻。

2.She married a fortune. 她嫁給一個富翁。

3.He married into a rich family. 他結(jié)婚后成了一個富豪家中的一員。

4.They are going to get married on New Year's Day. 他們打算元旦結(jié)婚。

5.We've just got engaged. 我們剛剛訂婚。

6.I can't wait to get married. 我迫不及待想結(jié)婚。

7.I never wanted marriage. 我從沒想過要結(jié)婚。

8.Their marriage nearly broke up. 他們的婚姻關(guān)系將要破裂。

9.He married well and happily. 他婚姻幸福美滿。

10.After five years of unhappy marriage,he divorced his wife.

經(jīng)過五年的不幸?；橐鲋?，他和他妻子離婚。

Dailogue One

A:Would you mind if I ask you whether you are married or not?

你介意我問你是否結(jié)婚了嗎?

B:To be frank,I was married once,and now I'm single.

坦白說，我曾經(jīng)結(jié)過婚，但是我現(xiàn)在是單身。

A:Do you mean you got a divorce?

你是說你離過婚?

B:Yes,my first marriage was a failure.

是的，我第一次婚姻失敗了。

Dialogue Two

A:John,if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a personal question.

約翰，如果你不介意，我想問你一個私人問題。

B:I don't mind at all.

我一點也不介意。

A:All right.Are you married?

好的。你結(jié)婚了嗎?

B:To tell you the truth,I'm not married.I'm still single.

實話告訴你，我還沒結(jié)婚。我還是單身。

A:Then,when do you plan to get married?

那么，你打算什么時候結(jié)婚?

B:I don't know. It's still up in the air.

我不知道，還沒決定。

Dialogue Three

A:This man looks very handsome.Is he married?

這個男人看起來很帥。他結(jié)婚了嗎?

B:Sure.He has already married,a father of two boys.

當(dāng)然。他已經(jīng)結(jié)婚了，是兩個男孩的爸爸了。

A:Oh,I can't believe it.He looks very young.

噢，我不相信。他看起來很年輕。

B:He took the picture when he was only 21years old.

這張照片是他21歲的時候拍的。

A:I see.

我明白了。

婚姻法

Every human society has rules covering marriage.In Britain it is illegal to marry under the age of 18 without your parents' permission and an offence to marry at all under the age of 16.It's also against the law to have more than one husband or wife at the same time.Anyone who breaks this law may go to prison.You may marry your first cousin but you can't marry anyone who is a closer relative than this.

每個人類社會都有關(guān)于結(jié)婚的規(guī)定。在英國，18歲以下，沒有父母之命結(jié)婚是不合法的，和16歲以下的人結(jié)婚也是違法的。同時擁有一個以上的丈夫或妻子也是違反法律的。任何違犯婚姻法的人都可能進(jìn)監(jiān)獄。你可以和你的嫡表(或堂)兄弟姐妹結(jié)婚，但是你不能和比這個還親的人結(jié)婚。

In some societies the rules are stricter.There are places where the men must marry outside their family.For the Nuer tribe in Sudan this means that a man usually has to find a wife in a different village because the people in his village belong to the same family .The Nuer say,"We marry those with whom we fight." In this way friendship is created between enemy villages.

在一些社會，這些規(guī)定更加嚴(yán)格。有些地方，男人必須和他們家族以外的人結(jié)婚。對蘇丹的努爾人部落來說，這意味著一個男人通常必須找一個不同村的妻子，因為他的同村人屬于同一家族。努爾人說：“我們和那些與我們戰(zhàn)斗的人結(jié)婚。”以這種方法，友誼是在敵對村子之間產(chǎn)生的。