美語情景對話 第200期:婚禮 他的故事 The Wedding His Story
Todd: OK, John could you tell us about your wedding day?
託德：好的，約翰，你能跟我們說說結婚那天的事嗎？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.
約翰：當然可以，我在兩年前結婚，5月18日。我在我妻子父母的後院舉行了婚禮。他們有一個非常漂亮的後院，裏面有游泳池，景色非常美，當然還有大片漂亮的鮮花、灌木叢還有樹木。我們舉行的是小型婚禮，只邀請了30到50名賓客，都是家人的親密朋友，有些家人我已經有幾年沒有見過了，他們都來參加婚禮了，我們的婚禮並不隆重，我們準備的美食包括海鮮、肉類、牛排這類的食物，那是一場很唯美的戶外婚禮。實際上整個儀式只持續了大概15或是20分鐘。我在要宣誓時哭了。我哭了，之後所有人都跟我說，“我根本沒聽到你說的任何一個字，因爲你一直在哭！”我努力控制自己不要大聲說話，因爲我說話的聲音越大，我哭泣的聲音也越大，所以我就像這樣，“啊，唔，你願意嫁給我嗎？”，非常小的聲音。不過除了那個，婚禮進行的很順利。
重點講解：
1. make it
到達；成功；趕上；
eg. You're brave and courageous. You can make it.
你勇敢無畏，一定會獲得成功。
eg. He hadn't been able to make it to our dinner.
他沒能出席我們的晚宴。
2. be supposed to do sth.
應當，應該做某事；
eg. He was supposed to go back to Bergen on the last bus, but of course the accident prevented him.
他本來要乘最後一班汽車回卑爾根，但當然，這起事故使他沒能回去。
eg. Public spending is supposed to fall, not rise, in the next few years.
在接下來的幾年裏，政府開支應該會下降，而不是上升。
3. the more
常用結構，表示“越……就越……”；文中用的是the louder...
eg. The more he gets, the more he wants.
他越來越貪。
eg. The higher the ground is, the thinner air becomes.
離地面越高,空氣就越稀薄。
4. other than
（用於否定陳述後）除了…以外；
eg. I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free.
我沒有雄心大志，只求自由自在地過幸福生活。
eg. He has no friend other than you.
他除你之外就沒有別的朋友了。
