新東方英語口語 開口篇 Lesson 20 Marriage 婚姻

2001

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

marriage n.

marry vt.

marry A to B My father married me to a doctor.

I am married to a doctor.

marry sb. off She finally married her daughter off.

marry sb. I married Rick.

She married money.

marry vi. A and B married last year.

marry above oneself marry below oneself

married adj. be married to sb He is a married man.

marriage Marriage in haste and repent at leisure.

Marriage may be compared to a cage:

the birds outside despair to get in and

those within despair to get outside.

2002

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

My elder sister is married, but she doesn‘t want to start a family yet.

我姐姐結婚了，但還不想要孩子。

family

I have closed family.

I have a big family.

He married above himself.

He married into the Kennedy family. 家族

mother-in-law 岳母

Sino-Tibetan-family

Gemp3anic-family 語系

2003

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

She gets on well with her mother-in-law.

她和她婆婆相處得很好。

get on badly

2004

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

My aunt is expecting a baby now.

我的阿姨要生小孩兒了。

I expect to see you.

I am expecting the coming of Christmas.

pregnant 懷孕

She is pregnant.

She is with a child.

She is in the family way.

2005

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

They had a baby last year.

他們去年生了個孩子。

infant 嬰兒 (holy infant 圣嬰) → baby 嬰孩 →

toddle 剛學走步的小孩 → kid / child 小孩 →

teenager 十幾歲的青少年 → grown-up / adult 成年人 →

the senior citizens 老年人 → elderly people / the old

people

aging problem 老齡化問題

married man married woman

anniversary wedding anniversary

1年 paper wedding anniversary

10年 china wedding anniversary

25年 silver wedding anniversary

50年 golden wedding anniversary

60年 diamond wedding anniversary

All the kids in our family are trying to host a silver wedding ceremony for my parents.

2006

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

My younger brother is engaged.

我弟弟訂婚了。

be engaged in sth

I am engaged in writing the temp3 / graduation paper.

be engaged to sb

2007

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

John is still studying at the university. He is single.

John還在上大學，他是單身。

I’m free.

I’m available.

MBA = married but available

Well, I’m on the market.

2008

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Her fiance is David, a businessman.

她未婚夫叫David，是個商人。

fiance 未婚夫

fiancee 未婚妻

They become husband and wife.

2009

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

He got divorced from her last year and remarried her this year.

去年他們離了婚，今年又復婚了。

Divorce rate is on the rise.

Divorce rate is on the increase.

get divorced from sb

divorce sb

He divorced the girl.

ex-wife 前妻

ex-husband 前夫

2010

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Uncle Mike married twice. He has two stepsons.

Mike叔叔結過兩次婚。他有兩個繼子。

She married five times.

She had five marriages.

stepfather stepmother

stepson stepdaughter

stepbrother stepsister

halfbrother halfsister

adoptive father adoptive mother

adopted son adopted daughter

He is a son out of the wed lock.

He is born without wed lock.

2011

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Daniel has another woman on the side but his wife is totally unaware.

Daniel有婚外情，可是他太太根本不知道。

be aware of 意識到

I wasn't aware of his anger.

I was unaware of his anger.

affair 事件

domestic affair foreign affair

Do you know Michael is having an affair. 風流韻事

He is having an affair with his secretary.

extramarital affair extramarital love 婚外戀

He is cheating on his wife. lover concubine

2012

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Some young people in the West fear marriage and would rather cohabitate.

西方社會一些年輕人怕結婚，寧愿同居。

cohabitate 同居

coeducation school = coed school

They are separate.

They split up.

He's moved out. 分居

sugar daddy

Woman is rubbing the cradle.

2013

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Do you have any relatives here in the States?

你在美國有什么親戚嗎?

2014

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

I still keep in touch with my cousins in Britain.

我和我在英國的表親們還保持著聯(lián)系。

2015

Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻

Aunt Lucy has been alone since her husband passed away last year.

從她先生去年去世后，Lucy阿姨一直一個人過。

married engaged

single divorce

passed away

He passed away.

widowed 寡居的、鰥居的

widower 鰥夫 widow 寡婦

bride 新娘 bridegroom 新郎

bestman 伴郎 bridemaid 伴娘