創(chuàng)新國際英語教程第三冊 unit10

[00:10.89]Is she really going out with him? [00:15.62]The latest census in the UK [00:21.19]has confirmed that inter-racial mariages are increasingly common, [00:27.22]leading many journalists to claim that we are a totally tolerant society. [00:33.25]However,despite what the census might suggest, [00:39.00]the truth is that the vast majority of us tend to eventually marry a partner [00:45.66]not only of the same race, [00:49.50]but also of the same religion,class,age and background. [00:55.56]While mixed of various descriptions may be on the increase, [01:02.04]prejudice and social and family pressures are still very much alive, [01:08.88]and love cannot always overcome them. [01:13.56]We talked to two couples about their experiences. [01:19.20]A religious divide [01:23.85]Rachel McCarthy and David Brown decided to leave Belfast, [01:31.12]the city in Northern Ireland that they both grew up in [01:36.16]and where their parents still live, [01:40.21]when they got married last year. [01:44.05]Rachel is a Catholic and David is Protestant. [01:50.21]The two halves of the christian religion are still deeply divided in Northern Ireland, [01:57.34]and although the bombing and killing which occurred between the two communities has largely stopped, [02:04.79]as Rachel and David know, [02:08.34]people in mixed marriages are often ostracised and verbally abused. [02:14.58]’We actually found it difficult to find a place to live in Belfast [02:22.03]because areas tend to be either Catholic or Protestant. [02:27.49]That’s really why we left. [02:31.54]Over here,we just look the same as everyone else and no one really knows [02:37.70]-or cares-that we have different backgrounds. [02:42.17]It has been very difficult,though, [02:46.90]because we haven’t had any support from our families. [02:51.44]Neither sets of parents have really come to terms with out relationship [02:57.32]and that’s obviously been very painful.’ [03:01.76]The age gap [03:07.32]Jamie Brodlin is twenty now and has been going out with his partner, [03:13.70]Jane Fisher,for three years. [03:17.46]Believe it or not,Jane has just turned sixty! [03:23.31]They met when Jamie was out clubbing with three friends. [03:29.06]Jane was working in the cloakroom [03:33.32]and when Jamie came up to her and started chatting her up, [03:38.49]she thought he was pulling her leg. [03:42.15]’I thought he was just some lad with too many beers inside him [03:47.79]who was doing it all for a bet. [03:51.63]It was only later when he phoned me up to ask me out on a date, [03:56.70]I realised just how mature and sensible he really is.’ [04:01.84]Jamie says:’To be honest,I never have gone for girls my own age. [04:09.70]I tend to find them a bit immature. [04:14.07]They usually just want to talk about music and shopping, [04:19.34]whereas you can have a proper conversation with someonw who’s older. [04:24.70]I guess Jane was quite a bit older than my previous girlfriend, [04:30.55]but there was just something about her and about the way she moved [04:36.19]and hung up the coats that caught my eye. [04:40.56]She’s a very warm and appealing sort of woman. [04:45.60]My mates did think it was a bit weird, [04:50.14]but I just told them it’s none of their business, [04:54.69]and now they don’t really ask about Jane. [04:59.23]Jane often stays in with my parents when I go out clubbing. [05:05.48]She says she’s too old for that kind of thing these days,which is fine. [05:11.85]I was worried that my parents wouldn’t approve of her [05:17.20]when I first broke the news to them, [05:21.15]but they’ve been fantastic. [05:24.99]They found it a bit difficult to accept I was in love with someone old enough to be my gran, [05:32.12]but when they met her,they just got on really well. [05:37.58]I don’t know if we’ll ever get married. [05:41.73]We’ll see.We haven’t really talked about it.’

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