2001
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
marriage n.

marry vt.
marry A to B My father married me to a doctor.
I am married to a doctor.
marry sb. off She finally married her daughter off.
marry sb. I married Rick.
She married money.
marry vi. A and B married last year.
marry above oneself marry below oneself
married adj. be married to sb He is a married man.
marriage Marriage in haste and repent at leisure.
Marriage may be compared to a cage:
the birds outside despair to get in and
those within despair to get outside.

2002
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
My elder sister is married, but she doesn‘t want to start a family yet.
我姐姐结婚了，但还不想要孩子。

family
I have closed family.
I have a big family.
He married above himself.
He married into the Kennedy family. 家族
mother-in-law 岳母
Sino-Tibetan-family
Germanic-family 语系

2003
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
She gets on well with her mother-in-law.
她和她婆婆相处得很好。

get on badly

2004
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
My aunt is expecting a baby now.
我的阿姨要生小孩儿了。

I expect to see you.
I am expecting the coming of Christmas.
pregnant 怀孕
She is pregnant.
She is with a child.
She is in the family way.

2005
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
They had a baby last year.
他们去年生了个孩子。

infant 婴儿 (holy infant 圣婴) → baby 婴孩 →
toddle 刚学走步的小孩 → kid / child 小孩 →
teenager 十几岁的青少年 → grown-up / adult 成年人 →
the senior citizens 老年人 → elderly people / the old
people
aging problem 老龄化问题
married man married woman
anniversary wedding anniversary
1年 paper wedding anniversary
10年 china wedding anniversary
25年 silver wedding anniversary
50年 golden wedding anniversary
60年 diamond wedding anniversary
All the kids in our family are trying to host a silver wedding ceremony for my parents.

2006
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
My younger brother is engaged.
我弟弟订婚了。

be engaged in sth
I am engaged in writing the term / graduation paper.
be engaged to sb

2007
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
John is still studying at the university. He is single.
John还在上大学，他是单身。

I’m free.
I’m available.
MBA = married but available
Well, I’m on the market.

2008
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Her fiance is David, a businessman.
她未婚夫叫David，是个商人。

fiance 未婚夫
fiancee 未婚妻
They become husband and wife.

2009
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
He got divorced from her last year and remarried her this year.
去年他们离了婚，今年又复婚了。

Divorce rate is on the rise.
Divorce rate is on the increase.
get divorced from sb
divorce sb
He divorced the girl.
ex-wife 前妻
ex-husband 前夫

2010
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Uncle Mike married twice. He has two stepsons.
Mike叔叔结过两次婚。他有两个继子。

She married five times.
She had five marriages.
stepfather stepmother
stepson stepdaughter
stepbrother stepsister
halfbrother halfsister
adoptive father adoptive mother
adopted son adopted daughter
He is a son out of the wed lock.
He is born without wed lock.

2011
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Daniel has another woman on the side but his wife is totally unaware.
Daniel有婚外情，可是他太太根本不知道。

be aware of 意识到
I wasn't aware of his anger.
I was unaware of his anger.
affair 事件
domestic affair foreign affair
Do you know Michael is having an affair. 风流韵事
He is having an affair with his secretary.
extramarital affair extramarital love 婚外恋
He is cheating on his wife. lover concubine

2012
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Some young people in the West fear marriage and would rather cohabitate.
西方社会一些年轻人怕结婚，宁愿同居。

cohabitate 同居
coeducation school = coed school
They are separate.
They split up.
He's moved out. 分居
sugar daddy
Woman is rubbing the cradle.

2013
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Do you have any relatives here in the States?
你在美国有什么亲戚吗？

2014
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
I still keep in touch with my cousins in Britain.
我和我在英国的表亲们还保持着联系。

2015
Lesson Twenty Marriage 婚姻
Aunt Lucy has been alone since her husband passed away last year.
从她先生去年去世后，Lucy阿姨一直一个人过。

married engaged
single divorce
passed away
He passed away.
widowed 寡居的、鳏居的
widower 鳏夫 widow 寡妇
bride 新娘 bridegroom 新郎
bestman 伴郎 bridemaid 伴娘