印度新郎算不出15+6遭新娘悔婚

 　　An Indian bride has walked out of her wedding after her bridegroom-to-be failed to solve a simple maths problem, according to police in Uttar Pradesh.

　　印度北方邦警方透露，因准新郎未能解出一道简单的算术题，印度一位新娘毅然悔婚。

　　The bride asked the groom¹ to add 15 and six. When he replied 17, she called off the marriage.

　　这位新娘让新郎算出15加6等于多少，新郎回答“17”。听到答案后，新娘取消了这段婚约。

　　Reports say the groom's family tried to convince the bride to return, but she refused saying the man was illiterate².

　　有报道称，新郎的家人力劝新娘回头，但她断然拒绝，称未婚夫是个文盲。

　　Local police said they mediated³ between the families, and both sides returned all the gifts given before the wedding.

　　当地警方已介入进行调解。双方已将婚礼前送抵的彩礼退还。

　　印度新郎算不出15+6遭新娘悔婚

　　Most marriages in India are arranged by the families, and it is common for a bride and groom to get married without spending time in each other's company.

　　在印度，大多数婚姻都是由父母一手包办。新郎新娘还没好好处对象就结婚的现象比比皆是。

　　A police official of Rasoolabad village where the incident happened told BBC Hindi that local resident Mohar Singh had fixed⁴ his daughter Lovely's wedding to a man called Ram⁵ Baran.

　　事发所在地拉索拉巴德村的一名警官说，当地居民莫哈·辛格原本为女儿拉弗里与一名叫兰姆·巴朗的男子定下了婚约。

　　"But just before the marriage ceremony Lovely came to know that Ram Baran is illiterate and she refused to marry," he said.

　　“但婚礼前拉弗里得知兰姆·巴朗是个文盲，然后她就悔婚了，”他说道。

　　Mohar Singh told the Associated Press news agency that the "groom's family had kept us in the dark about his poor education".

　　莫哈·辛格表示自己一直被新郎的家人蒙在鼓里，完全不知道兰姆是个文盲。

　　"Even a first grader can answer this [the maths test]," he said.

　　“哪怕是一年级小学生都能算对这道（数学）题，”他说道。

　　Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a guest at her wedding after her groom-to-be had a seizure⁶ and collapsed⁷.

　　就在上个月，北方邦的另一位新娘在准新郎癫痫发作晕倒后与婚礼上的一位客人结了婚。

　　Reports said the groom was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride and her family.

　　据报道，那位准新郎是个癫痫患者，但他一直向新娘及其家人隐瞒自己的病情。

　　Vocabulary:

　　illiterate： 文盲

　　seizure：癫痫发作

　　epileptic：患癫痫的

1 groom   

vt.给（马、狗等）梳毛，照料，使...整洁

参考例句：

• His father was a groom.他父亲曾是个马夫。
• George was already being groomed for the top job.为承担这份高级工作，乔治已在接受专门的培训。

2 illiterate   

adj.文盲的；无知的；n.文盲

参考例句：

• There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。
• I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲，今天也认字了。

3 mediated   

调停，调解，斡旋( mediate的过去式和过去分词 )； 居间促成； 影响…的发生； 使…可能发生

参考例句：

• He mediated in the quarrel between the two boys. 他调解两个孩子之间的争吵。
• The government mediated between the workers and the employers. 政府在工人与雇主间搞调和。

4 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

5 ram   

(random access memory)随机存取存储器

参考例句：

• 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。

6 seizure   

n.没收；占有；抵押

参考例句：

• The seizure of contraband is made by customs.那些走私品是被海关没收的。
• The courts ordered the seizure of all her property.法院下令查封她所有的财产。

7 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。