“离婚”要谨慎
快节奏的生活,膨胀的物欲让人心烦意乱,导致现代社会的离婚率居高不下。虽然说合则来,不合则分,但是离婚总归是一件伤心伤情、劳民伤财的事,所以一定要谨慎啊。 说到“离婚”,大家都知道英语是 divorce,这个词不仅是动词,还是名词,我们来看两个例子: His cruelty has got beyond endurance; that's why his wife has decided to divorce him. 他的残暴已令人无法忍受,因此他妻子决定与他离婚。 This couple has come to this, that they can not solve their problem without a divorce. 这对夫妇已到了不离婚就解决不了他们之间的问题的地步。 除了divorce,“离婚”还有很多常用的其他表达,比如: 1. Break up Break up 有“结束一段关系”的意思,比如“结束一段友情,结束一段恋情/婚姻”: Their marriage broke up last year. 他们去年离婚了。 Bob and Mary broke up last month. 鲍勃和玛丽上个月分手了。 His gambling was bound to break up their marriage. 他赌博,结果他太太和他离婚了。 “离婚”也可以直接说成 break a marriage,比如: I wouldn't go as far as to break the marriage. 我还不至于到离婚的地步。 Expectations can either make or break a marriage. 对婚姻的期望既可能保有一段婚姻也可能导致离婚。 2. Split up (with sb.) Split up 的本意是“分开,分裂”,也可以用来表示“分手,离婚”,例如: They split up after a year of marriage. 他们结婚一年后离婚了。 Prince William and girlfriend split up. 威廉王子和女友分手了。 3. Separate Separate 既可以表示夫妻“法律上离婚”,也可以表示“分居”,例如: She was separated from her husband last year. 去年她和丈夫离婚了 The child's parents have separated. 这孩子的父母已经分居了。 那离婚后“再婚”要怎么说呢?就是remarry,例如: Research suggests that the best time to remarry is before a child's 10th birthday or after his/her 16th. 研究建议最佳的再婚时间是在孩子10岁之前或是16岁之后。 She remarried her former husband ten year after their divorce. 她与原来的丈夫离婚十年后又复婚了。 |