英语新闻英美女性在压力下结婚幻灯片.pptVIP

Under pressure to marry? The women buying fake engagement rings to avoid the Thanksgiving Third Degree from parents during holiday visit with-it: 时髦的 smokin: 性感，火辣have/get one‘s finger on the pulse: 知道、了解正在发生的一切，消息灵通，掌握脉搏 throe: 剧痛，阵痛Third Degree: 严刑逼供，拷问 The holidays are known to cause stress to scores of single women in the throes of The Panic Years, who dub the annual visit-cum-interrogation the Thanksgiving Third Degree. Now some women have admitted to buying fake, cheap engagement rings just to prevent parents - and other overly-critical family members - from delivering ridicule and judgement over their single status. Heather, a 31-year old lawyer from New York, was well on her way to being both unhitched and unhinged, thanks to her mothers persistent pestering about marriage. She feared that the constant nagging could destroy not just her own sanity, but threaten her long-time relationship with her boyfriend, Tony, who was regularly interrogated about his intentions from his would-be mother-in-law. unhitched: 未婚的 unhinged: 精神错乱的 never the wiser: 依旧不懂，仍然一无所知 I got a fake ring for 30 bucks just to shut her up, she said. It actually worked and it turned into a really great visit! Just three months later, Heather had a real ring to show off. Tony proposed on their own timetable - on Valentines Day - and her mother was never the wiser. * * Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. There are roughly 55 million single women in the US, many of them with-it, smokin and smart, with their finger on the pulse of life. But when that certain finger is ringless, even the most self-assured single dreads the shame and rebuke of disappointed family during a visit home. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011 Aspose Pty Ltd. Evaluation only. Created with Aspose.Slides for .NET 3.5 Client Profile 5.2.0.0. Copyright 2004-2011