【轻松英文阅读】科威特妇女的离婚诉求

 Couples divorce for all sorts of reasons: disagreements about money, cheating, abuse, different ideas on how to raise kids, but a woman in Kuwait has a most unusual reason. It appears she cannot take her new husband’s poor table manners.

 

The unidentified lady claims that instead of using a fork to eat peas, her husband scoops¹ them up with a slice of bread. As she put it, “the shocking sight” of him eating peas directly off of the bread was too much for her. That is when she decided² she could not spend the rest of her life with him.

 

Even stranger is that the couple had been married only a week.

 

What do you think? Should she have more patience or is it better to end it quickly?

1 scoops   

n.小铲( scoop的名词复数 )；小勺；一勺[铲]之量；（抢先刊载、播出的）独家新闻v.抢先报道( scoop的第三人称单数 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
• I used three scoops of flour and one(scoop)of sugar. 我用了三杓面粉和一杓糖。 来自辞典例句

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。