每个国家的风俗都有所不同，谈一谈与外国人谈恋爱遇到的问题

今天的这段对话，在讨论跨国婚姻，
 
每个国家的风俗都有所不同，谈一谈与外国人谈恋爱遇到的问题
 
来听今天的讲解:
 
A: if you can choose, will you marry a foreigner or a Chinese?
 
如果让你选的话，你是愿意嫁给一个中国人还是一个外国人？
 
B: why? Did tom pop the question?
 
为什么这么问，汤姆向你求婚了吗？
 
A: not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents’ consent.
 
没有，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个中国人，对吗？
 
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，我正头疼呢，我觉得左右为难。
 
B: I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.
 
我和以前的男朋友谈恋爱时，也遇到了同样的问题。
 
A: oh, how did you deal with it?
 
那你怎么解决的？
 
B: I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.
 
我就顺其自然，继续和我的韩国男朋友约会，但是后来我们还是分手了。
 
A: oh, it’s a pity. What was the matter?
 
太可惜了，为什么啊？
 
B: simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.
 
很简单，我们性格不合，双方文化也有很多不同之处。
 
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.
 
他希望我过韩式的生活，要求我放弃工作，安心待在家里。
 
A: Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.
 
这样啊，在他们的文化里，女性应该以家庭为重。
 
B: yes, he said it would be batter for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.
 
是啊，他说这样对我，对整个家庭都好。但是我就是不想辞掉工作。
 
A: so that's why it’s hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.
 
所以和外国人结婚，很难幸福。
 
B: not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.
 
也不一定，我们周围不也有很多成功的例子嘛。