英语读写教程2unit3..2222.ppt

Marriage Across Nations ? We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right 许多夫妻因为错误的理由结了婚，结果在10年、20年或30年后才发觉他们原来是合不来的。他们在婚前几乎没有花时间去互相了解，他们忽视了严重的性格差异，指望婚姻会自然而然地解决各种问题。我们希望避免重蹈覆辙。 overlook 没注意，忽略，俯视 例如：我之前忽视了这个问题，现在必须要着手解决它 I overlooked this problem and have to deal with it now Marriage Across Nations That point was emphasized by the fact that Gails parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship. 事实更说明了这一点：已经结婚35年的盖尔的父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变，这件事给盖尔带来了很大打击，并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系造成了负面影响。 When Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her family she met with some resistance 当盖尔把我们计划举办婚礼的消息告诉家人时，她遇到了一些阻力。 meet with 遭遇，遇到 例如：她得到了许多好心人的帮助 She met with much kindness Her mother, Deborah, all along had been supportive of our relationship, and even joked about when we were going to get married so she could have grandchildren 她的母亲德博拉过去一直赞成我们的关系，甚至还开过玩笑，问我们打算何时结婚，这样她就可以抱外孙了 all along =all the time始终 例如：她一直对我很好 She was kind to me all along Instead of congratulations upon hearing our news, Deborah counseled Gail to be really sure she was doing the right thing 但这次听到我们要结婚的消息时，她没有向我们表示祝贺，反而劝盖尔想清楚自己的决定是否正确。 电视剧《我的娜塔莎》 电视剧《我的娜塔莎》是中国首部横跨中、苏、日三国的恢弘大剧，讲述了一个长达50年的跨国爱情故事，在这段故事中，描述了女教官娜塔莎、日本女护士伊田纪子和庞天德执着苦恋，经历了近半个世纪的失散聚合的故事，耐人寻味。 疯狂李阳家暴门 李阳 疯狂英语创始人、著名英语口语教育专家、教育慈善家。 　　电话中，李阳第一句话便是“很抱歉，之前一直没对这件事作回应”。 　　他的语气比较平静，昨日他和妻子又产生了新的矛盾，为了避免冲突，李阳暂时搬到酒店居住。 　　谈及因家庭暴力所遭致的网友攻击，李阳表示很坦然，笑称自己是“家庭暴力的反面教材”，希望通过他的例子让更多家庭反省、受益。 So it was all right for me to date him, but its wrong for me to marry him “这么说我