高中英语 老外最想聊的100个口语话题（08）跨国婚恋素材.doc

mixed marriages 跨国婚恋dialogue 1n: 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？s: why? did tom pop the question?为什么这么问，汤姆向你求婚了吗？n: not yet. but i wonder if i can get my parents consent.没有，我怕父母不同意。s: 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？n: you are right. it is giving me a real headache. i feel like im between a rock and a hard place.是啊，我正头疼呢，我觉得左右为难。s: 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。n: oh, how did you deal with it?那你怎么解决的？s: 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。n: oh, its a pity. what was the matter?太可惜了，为什么啊？s: 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。n: like what?比如呢？s: 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。n: 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。s: 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。n: so thats why its hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.所以和外国人结婚，很难幸福。s: 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。dialogue 2n: more and more chinese are marrying foreigners.越来越多的中国人嫁给了外国人。s: thats true. but i have a low opinion of those women who go out with foreigners.是啊，但是我挺鄙视那些和外国人在一起的女人的。n: oh, why?啊？为什么啊？s: i think some chinese wonem marry foreigners for money while others just want to live abroad. there is no true love between them.我觉得有些人嫁给外国人是为了钱，有些人是为了去国外定居，反正他们之间没有真爱。n: i wouldnt say thats totally true. ive met many happy intercultural couples.也不全是吧。我见过很多幸福的跨过夫妻。s: well, then why arent there many east-west couples where the man is a chinese and the woman is a westerner?n: i guess its because the chinese women are more attractive to western men.那为什么没有多少夫妻，男方是中国人，女方是外国人呢？s: or because they are less attractive to to chinese men.可能是因为中国女人对外国男人更有吸引力吧。n: what do you mean?怎么说？s: you know, usually the woman is in her thirties and she is a left girl.这些女人大约三十多岁，是剩女。n: a left girl? whats that?剩女？什么意思啊？s: theyre called that because theyre left behind on the shelf. theyre also known by their three hs-high diploma, high salary, and high degree.这么说，因为他们是别人挑剩下的。她们有三高:高文凭，高工资，高学位。n: and theyre also known as the three sssingle, stuck, and born in the seventies.还有人说她们有三难:单身，高不成低不就，出生在70年代后。s: definitely! so most of these women go for western men.的确！所以这些人就把目标转向了外国人。n: