跟读练习: 全英|为什么很多美国女孩不想结婚?Why aren't people getting married anymore? - 通过视频学习英语口语
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What do American girls really think about marriage?
美国女孩对婚姻的真实看法是什么?
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To be honest, from my experience,
老实说,根据我的经验,
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I would say that most of us don't want to get married at all.
我想说,我们大多数人根本就不想结婚。
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But that's not to say that there aren't a lot of people here who still want to get married,
但这并不是说这里就没有很多人仍然想要结婚。
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and of course, everyone has their own opinions about marriage.
当然,每个人对婚姻都有自己的看法。
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But overall, I think the trend is that most Americans are not getting married,
但总体而言,我认为趋势是大多数美国人都不结婚了。
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or they're getting married much later in life.
或者他们结婚的年龄要晚得多。
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First, I think it's really important to understand
首先,我认为理解这一点非常重要。
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that our dating culture is really different
我们的约会文化真的很不一样
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and most people here will date purely out of love
这里的大多数人谈恋爱纯粹是因为爱情。
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and we don't really consider too much about our partner's financial status
而且我们其实不会过多考虑伴侣的经济状况。
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or their job or how much property they have and no,
也不是他们的工作或他们拥有多少财产,不是的。
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there is no Tylee in America.
美国没有叫Tylee的人。
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Usually after you're married, you'll go buy a house together and and combine your incomes to pay it off together.
通常结婚之后,你们会一起买房,然后把收入合在一起共同还贷。
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So when we're dating, we basically just think it's important to find someone with similar values and similar life goals,
所以在我们约会的时候,基本上都会觉得找到一个价值观相似、人生目标也相近的人很重要。
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but mostly we want someone that we can fall in love with
但最重要的是,我们想要一个能让我们爱上的人。
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and someone who brings joy and happiness to our day-to-day life.
也能为我们的日常生活带来欢乐与幸福的人。
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Because if we're gonna spend the rest of our life with one person,
因为如果我们要和一个人共度余生,
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it better be someone that we truly want to see every day.
最好是一个我们真心想要每天见到的人。
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So why don't American girls want to get married?
那么为什么美国女孩不想结婚呢?
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There are two main reasons,
主要有两个原因,
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and the first one is that it's super hard to find a really good guy here.
首先,在这里要找到一个真正优秀的男人简直太难了。
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A lot of American guys don't do any household chores.
很多美国男性一点家务都不做。
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They're not really good at taking care of the kids and they can be extremely selfish.
他们并不擅长照顾孩子,而且可能会非常自私。
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So for girls after they get married they're expected to keep doing their full-time jobs
所以对于女性来说,婚后人们通常会期望她们继续从事全职工作。
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and take care of the house and do all of the child care.
还要料理家务,承担所有育儿工作。
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So I can tell you from experience of watching my mom do this,
所以根据我看着我妈妈做这件事的经验,我可以告诉你,
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it can get really really exhausting.
这真的会让人非常非常疲惫。
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In Chinese, there's the phrase 中男情女,
中文里有个说法叫中男情女,
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and I think a lot of people think that America isn't this way,
而且我觉得很多人都以为美国不是这样的。
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but in most places, I would say it really is,
但在大多数地方,我得说情况确实如此。
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and girls are expected to do a lot more than boys.
而且人们普遍期望女孩做的事情比男孩多得多。
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For example, I have three brothers,
比如,我有三个兄弟,
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and I'm the only daughter,
而且我是家里唯一的女儿。
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so I was expected to do a lot more than them and before I was even 10 years old,
所以大家总指望我比他们做得多得多,而且我那时候还不到十岁。
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I could cook, clean, do the dishes,
我会做饭、打扫卫生、洗碗。
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mow the yard, take care of the house,
修剪草坪,打理房屋,
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and take care of my younger brothers.
还要照顾我的弟弟们。
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Literally anything needed to be done around the house,
家里大大小小所有需要做的事
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I could do it and I was expected to do it.
我有能力做到这件事,而且大家也都指望我去做。
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But even to this day,
但即使到了今天,
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I don't even think that some of my brothers know how to do the laundry.
我甚至觉得我的几个兄弟连怎么洗衣服都不知道。
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So there are a lot of things in American culture that are are really unfair for women and in turn,
美国文化中存在很多对女性非常不公平的现象,而反过来,
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it's kind of given us this negative impression of marriage.
这在某种程度上让我们对婚姻产生了负面印象。
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And this leads us to the second reason that American girls don't really want to get married anymore,
这就引出了美国女孩不再真正想要结婚的第二个原因。
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which is because these days most girls can live a very full and happy life being totally independent.
这是因为如今大多数女性完全可以凭借独立的状态过上充实而幸福的生活。
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More and more women are getting a better education,
越来越多的女性正在接受更好的教育。
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which leads them to higher paying jobs and being able to fully support themselves.
这使他们能够获得薪资更高的工作,并有能力完全养活自己。
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In the past, girls were expected to get married and have kids
过去,人们普遍认为女孩应该结婚生子。
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and just live as a housewife and
就当一个家庭主妇,过过日子就行了
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if you didn't do this it was basically socially unacceptable and you could be ostracized from society.
如果你不这么做,在社交层面上基本是无法被接受的,你甚至可能被社会排斥。
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But now I would say most of the girls that I know are living perfectly happy lives,
但现在我得说,我认识的大多数女孩都过着非常幸福的生活。
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being totally independent, and they have a good group of friends
他们完全独立,还有一群要好的朋友。
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and family who support them while they go study or work to support themselves.
以及那些在他们求学或工作以自食其力时给予支持的家人。
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Getting married is definitely not the main focus of their entire life.
结婚绝对不是他们整个人生的主要重心。
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I think it's super important
我觉得这特别重要
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that girls are able to have this choice to choose what they want their future to be
让这些女孩能够拥有选择的权利,决定自己未来的模样。
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and while it may be the case that most Americans don't really want to get married,
尽管大多数美国人可能确实并不真正想要结婚,
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there are still plenty of Americans who do get married.
仍有大量美国人会选择结婚。
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Especially if you go to some smaller towns in America where the cost of living is much lower
尤其是如果你去美国一些生活成本低得多的小城镇
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and people can have a more relaxed lifestyle,
人们可以拥有更轻松的生活方式
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you'll be able to see more and more people getting married
你会看到越来越多的人步入婚姻殿堂。
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and having kids because they don't need to work so much
以及生育孩子,因为他们不需要那么拼命工作。
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or they can rely on one person's income if they have a really good job.
或者如果他们中有一个人有一份非常好的工作,他们也可以只靠一个人的收入维持生活。
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So in these situations there are some women who are housewives and there's no real negative connotation to this word
所以在这些情况下,有些女性是家庭主妇,而这个词本身并没有真正的贬义。
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unless you say it like she's just a housewife.
除非你把她说得好像只是个家庭主妇。
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Then it can come off as really judgmental.
那样会让人觉得你很爱评判别人。
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Most Americans don't really judge when someone says they're a housewife
大多数美国人并不会因为别人说自己是家庭主妇而对此抱有什么偏见。
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or a stay-at-home mom or something like that
或者是当全职妈妈之类的
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because we know how hard it is to take care of the whole house and to raise kids basically on your own.
因为我们深知,一个人操持整个家、带大孩子到底有多不容易。
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Some people might feel jealous
有些人可能会感到嫉妒
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or they might feel like those women aren't living up to their full potential by just being a housewife,
或者他们会觉得那些女性只当家庭主妇,没有充分发挥自己的潜力。
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but those judgmental people are really just a minority.
但那些爱品头论足的人终究只是少数。
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So even though a lot of American girls are choosing not to get married recently,
所以尽管最近有很多美国女性选择不结婚,
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I would say that deep down,
我想说,在内心深处,
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a lot of us still do want to get married.
我们当中很多人仍然是想结婚的。
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It's just really hard to find the right person.
要找到合适的人真的很难。
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I think marriage should be pretty simple and easy and really romantic as long as we have that right person.
我觉得只要找对了人,婚姻本该是简单轻松、又充满浪漫的。
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But without that person, I think it just makes life way more difficult for a lot of women.
但如果没有那个人,我觉得这会让很多女性的生活变得艰难得多。
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Anyway, I hope this video helped you understand more about American culture
总之,我希望这个视频能帮助你更了解美国文化。
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and let me know in the comments if you share any similar thoughts
如果你也有类似的想法,欢迎在评论区告诉我
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or feelings or if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll see you guys next time.
或者感受,有任何问题都可以随时提问,我们下次再见。
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Bye!
再见!
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在最近的一段视频中,讲述者探讨了美国女孩对于婚姻的看法。根据她的经验,大多数美国女孩对结婚并没有强烈的渴望。虽然仍然有许多人想要结婚,但整体趋势是,美国人结婚的年龄越来越晚。这个视频揭示了美国的约会文化,强调了人们在寻找伴侣时,更注重的是爱的契合,而非伴侣的经济状况或职业。这种对爱的追求影响了许多女孩的婚姻观,使她们更倾向于独立生活。
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