英语对话练习-告诉我你为甚麽结婚似闪婚的

unclemartin：Jackson, congratulations to you and Mary!  I just heard that you two are getting married next month.  You haven't met Mary for a long time.  Tell me what made you appear to be rushing into it hastily.

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wscy:fall in love at the first sight!

 

unclemartin:Falling in love at first sight doesn't necessarily translate to immediate¹ wedding.  You can have an incarnate² knowledge of each other first without waiting for the wedding night.  We are at an age when that piece of paper has a very different meaning.

 

xiaoyuyu:it seems like wscy is a romantic person!how to express 闪婚
 

unclemartin:This is not a western concept.  It is uniquely a phenomenon in contemporary China.

You can't call that a Ligtning Wedding perhaps.  Try FLEETING³ MARRIAGE.

I am not bothered at all as a foreigner won't understand you easily anyway.  You can't make yourself understood without elaborating a bit on that unique contemporary phenomenon.

 

martinpeng:Hi, maybe we can call it Spur-of-the-moment Marriage, or simply Quick Marriage. Marriage is a huge commitment because it is meant to bind⁴ two people's lives together for probably the rest of their life. For such a big decision, you can't take the commitment lightly, which may increase the risk of unhappiness or even divorce.

 

unclemartin:Somehow I got the impression that this what we call SPUR-OF-THE-MOMENT MARRIAGES are popular amongst the 90's, and then they also dissolve the marriage pretty soon thereafter.  So, they marry and divorce each other quickly.  I may be wrong as I have not followed through after hearing this new term.