美语情景对话 第200期:婚礼 他的故事 The Wedding His Story

Todd: OK, John could you tell us about your wedding day?

托德：好的，约翰，你能跟我们说说结婚那天的事吗？

John: Sure, I got married about two years ago on May 18th. I got married in my wife's parents backyard. They have a really beautiful backyard, with a pool and it's nicely landscaped, with lots of nice flowers and bushes and trees. It was a kind of a small wedding we only had about 30 to 50 people there, all close friends of the family, and a few family members who I hadn't seen in a few years who were able to make it, but it was a pretty small affair and we had the food catered, some seafood and some meat, steak, type items, and it was a beautiful outdoor wedding. The actual ceremony only lasted about 15, 20 minutes. I cried, when I was supposed to like, deliver my lines. I cried and everyone told me afterwards, they were like, " I couldn't hear a word you were saying because you were crying, right!" and I was trying not to talk loud cause the louder I got the louder my crying noises got, so I was like "Ah, mmm, will you merry me?", just real quiet. But other than that it went pretty smooth.

约翰：当然可以，我在两年前结婚，5月18日。我在我妻子父母的后院举行了婚礼。他们有一个非常漂亮的后院，里面有游泳池，景色非常美，当然还有大片漂亮的鲜花、灌木丛还有树木。我们举行的是小型婚礼，只邀请了30到50名宾客，都是家人的亲密朋友，有些家人我已经有几年没有见过了，他们都来参加婚礼了，我们的婚礼并不隆重，我们准备的美食包括海鲜、肉类、牛排这类的食物，那是一场很唯美的户外婚礼。实际上整个仪式只持续了大概15或是20分钟。我在要宣誓时哭了。我哭了，之后所有人都跟我说，“我根本没听到你说的任何一个字，因为你一直在哭！”我努力控制自己不要大声说话，因为我说话的声音越大，我哭泣的声音也越大，所以我就像这样，“啊，唔，你愿意嫁给我吗？”，非常小的声音。不过除了那个，婚礼进行的很顺利。

重点讲解：
1. make it
到达；成功；赶上；
eg. You're brave and courageous. You can make it.
你勇敢无畏，一定会获得成功。
eg. He hadn't been able to make it to our dinner.
他没能出席我们的晚宴。
2. be supposed to do sth.
应当，应该做某事；
eg. He was supposed to go back to Bergen on the last bus, but of course the accident prevented him.
他本来要乘最后一班汽车回卑尔根，但当然，这起事故使他没能回去。
eg. Public spending is supposed to fall, not rise, in the next few years.
在接下来的几年里，政府开支应该会下降，而不是上升。
3. the more
常用结构，表示“越……就越……”；文中用的是the louder...
eg. The more he gets, the more he wants.
他越来越贪。
eg. The higher the ground is, the thinner air becomes.
离地面越高,空气就越稀薄。
4. other than
（用于否定陈述后）除了…以外；
eg. I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free.
我没有雄心大志，只求自由自在地过幸福生活。
eg. He has no friend other than you.
他除你之外就没有别的朋友了。