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87.Marriage 婚姻(上)

1.Are you married? 你结婚了吗?

2.Do you mind if I ask you whether you are married or not? 你介意我问你是否结婚了吗?

3.When are you going to get married? 你们打算什么时候结婚?

4.When did you get engaged? 你们什么时候订婚?

5.Will you marry Mary? 你会和玛丽结婚吗?

6.How long have you been married? 你们结婚多久了?

7.What's your marital status? 你的婚姻状况怎么样?

8.When's the wedding ceremony? 婚礼时候时候举行?

9.Have you given her the engagement ring? 你有送她订婚戒指吗?

10.Would you like to stay at home after you get married? 结婚之后你想待在家里吗?

Dialogue One

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

我听说你最后和詹姆斯订婚了。

B:Yes,we are.

是的，我们订婚了。

A:When are you getting married?

你们什么时候结婚?

B:In the spring.

春天的时候。

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

噢，太好了。婚礼在哪里举行?

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

额，我们还没有确定，可能在圣奥尔本。

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

噢，是的，你的父母住在那里，是吗?

B:Yes,that's right.

是的，没错。

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

你们结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.

我们打算在伦敦南部的某个地方买一套公寓或小房子。

A:Are you going to give up your job?

你打算辞了你的工作吗?

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

是的，可能是，但是我们安定下来之后我可能会找另一份工作。

Dialogue Two

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

打扰了，我要怎么填这个空格?“婚姻状况”是什么意思?

B:Are you married?

你已婚了吗?

A:No,I'm still single.

不，我还是单身。

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

那么，你在这个空上写上“S”。

Dialogue Three

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

王小姐，你介意我问你一个私人问题吗?

B:No ,not at all.Go ahead.

不，一点也不介意。请问。

A:Are you married?

你结婚了吗?

B:Yes.Is that so important?

是的。这很重要吗?

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

坦白说，是的。我们想雇已婚人士。顺便问一下，你有孩子吗?

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

是的，我有一个三岁大的儿子。

沟通与美满婚姻

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?

很多人想结婚，过幸福的生活。然而，婚姻是复杂的。如果你不能解决一些问题，你的婚姻生活将会失败。我和我丈夫结婚近两年。我们结婚后的前18个月，我们还很幸福，但是之后他似乎对工作比对我有兴趣。他几乎每晚都加班，周末他经常从办公室带回工作来做。他似乎很幸福，但是他真的很喜欢他的工作。我感到孤独、不开心。之后，我开始转变态度，我经常和我丈夫交谈，了解他在想什么。渐渐地，我们互相理解，生活幸福。所以我认为互相理解对婚姻生活来说是很重要的。你这样认为吗?

Marriage 婚姻(下)

1.It's a hasty marriage. 这是一个草率的婚姻。

2.She married a fortune. 她嫁给一个富翁。

3.He married into a rich family. 他结婚后成了一个富豪家中的一员。

4.They are going to get married on New Year's Day. 他们打算元旦结婚。

5.We've just got engaged. 我们刚刚订婚。

6.I can't wait to get married. 我迫不及待想结婚。

7.I never wanted marriage. 我从没想过要结婚。

8.Their marriage nearly broke up. 他们的婚姻关系将要破裂。

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

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

经过五年的不幸福婚姻之后，他和他妻子离婚。

Dailogue One

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

你介意我问你是否结婚了吗?

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

坦白说，我曾经结过婚，但是我现在是单身。

A:Do you mean you got a divorce?

你是说你离过婚?

B:Yes,my first marriage was a failure.

是的，我第一次婚姻失败了。

Dialogue Two

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

约翰，如果你不介意，我想问你一个私人问题。

B:I don't mind at all.

我一点也不介意。

A:All right.Are you married?

好的。你结婚了吗?

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

实话告诉你，我还没结婚。我还是单身。

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

那么，你打算什么时候结婚?

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

我不知道，还没决定。

Dialogue Three

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

这个男人看起来很帅。他结婚了吗?

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

当然。他已经结婚了，是两个男孩的爸爸了。

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

噢，我不相信。他看起来很年轻。

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

这张照片是他21岁的时候拍的。

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.

每个人类社会都有关于结婚的规定。在英国，18岁以下，没有父母之命结婚是不合法的，和16岁以下的人结婚也是违法的。同时拥有一个以上的丈夫或妻子也是违反法律的。任何违犯婚姻法的人都可能进监狱。你可以和你的嫡表(或堂)兄弟姐妹结婚，但是你不能和比这个还亲的人结婚。

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.

在一些社会，这些规定更加严格。有些地方，男人必须和他们家族以外的人结婚。对苏丹的努尔人部落来说，这意味着一个男人通常必须找一个不同村的妻子，因为他的同村人属于同一家族。努尔人说：“我们和那些与我们战斗的人结婚。”以这种方法，友谊是在敌对村子之间产生的。