新视野大学语第二册读写教程unit3.ppt

* Unit 3: Section A Marriage Across the Nations 迪缨搭籽蔗神沉书仇篆霓冗髓酗钓隋怪搭跟陌脆蒲垫童殃潍咨刮拥苛鞍溃新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3 Intensive Study Marriage Across the Nations 1 Gail and I imagined a quiet wedding. During our two years together we had experienced the usual ups and downs of a couple learning to know, understand, and respect each other. But through it all we had honestly confronted the weaknesses and strengths of each other’s characters. 2 Our racial and cultural differences enhanced our relationship and taught us a great deal about tolerance, compromise, and being open with each other. Gail sometimes wondered why I and other blacks were so involved with the racial issue, and I was surprised that she seemed to forget the subtler forms of racial hatred in American society. 各弛归逛孪摇喳唇惊裁呈循矫辫灿周嚣萌谩熄抵奥挟维性宾绚雨锄厚屯树新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3 Intensive Study 3 Gail and I had no illusions about what the future held for us as a married, mixed couple in America. The continual source of our strength was our mutual trust and respect. 4 We wanted to avoid the mistake made by many couples of marrying for the wrong reasons, and only finding out ten, twenty, or thirty years later that they were incompatible, that they hardly took the time to know each other, that they overlooked serious personality conflicts in the expectation that marriage was an automatic way to make everything work out right. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail’s parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship. 欧耕绵辛积寡牢汲撒昭膜翔扁揭往竭元凶贞森袜锐心矩骚癸女佬了噪郊嚷新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3新视野大学英语第二册读写教程unit3 Intensive Study 5 When Gail spread the news of our wedding plans to her family she met with some resistance. Her mother, Deborah, all along had been supportive of our relationship, and even joked about when we were going to get married so she coul