关于求婚的初中英语阅读短文:Please Marry Me!
编者按：求婚是一件难得的大事。以下是一篇关于求婚的英语阅读材料，来看看主人公是怎么向喜欢的人求婚的吧!
Please Marry Me!
(请嫁给我吧!)
Jill answered the phone.
吉尔接起了电话
It was Jack.
是杰克。
"Jill, will you marry me next week?"
“吉尔，你下周可以嫁给我吗?”
"What?"
“什么?”
Jack repeated his question.
杰克重复了一边他的问题
"Of course not," she replied.
“当然不行”她回答说
She wondered why he was asking her that question.
她很想知道杰克为什么要问这个问题
They had already agreed that when people get married, they immediately start to take each other for granted.
他们曾达成过共识：当人们结婚后，他们立刻会把对方的存在当成理所应当。
They don’t do the "little things" like opening the car door or holding hands.
他们不会做那些“小事”，比如为对方打开车门或是牵起对方的手
They get too comfortable.
他们太安逸了。
They treat their partner like an old shoe.
他们像对待一只旧鞋子一样对待自己的另一半
And eventually, they get bored with each other and get divorced.
最后，他们厌倦了并离婚了
"We already agreed that we don’t want to get married because we don’t want to get divorced."
“我们已经达成了共识，我们不结婚因为我们不想离婚。”
Jack agreed.
杰克表示赞同
But he argued that they were special.
但他认为他们是特别的
They were different from other couples.
他们和其他情侣不同
They loved each other too much to end up in a divorce.
他们太爱对方了，不会离婚的
"Yes, that may be true.
“是的，这也许是对的。
But still, why next week?
但是，等等，为什么是下周?
Why can’t we think about it for another year or two?"
为什么我们不能再考虑一两年呢?”
"Because I had two dreams the last two nights.
“因为我昨晚做了两个梦，
In both dreams, you left me for another man.
在两个梦里你都为了另个人离开了我。
In fact, you left me for two different men.
事实上，还是两个不同的男人
I want to get married now so I don’t have these dreams anymore."
我想现在就结婚，这样我就不会再做这样的梦了。”
"Hmm. What did these men look like?"
“嗯，那些人长得什么样?”
重点知识讲解
【相关句型辨识】
原句：
they immediately start to take each other for granted.
他们曾达成过共识：当人们结婚后，他们立刻会把对方的存在当成理所应当。
分析：
take sth. for granted 认为…理所当然, 想当然
例如：
Don't take his help for granted.
不要认为他的帮助是应该的。
We shouldn't take anything for granted.
我们不要认为什么都是理所当然的。
知识讲解老师：Linda
公众号：小橙少儿英语
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