美語情景對話 第1230期:When is the best time to marry? 最佳結婚年齡

Hanna: Hi, I'm Hanna from Australia.

漢娜：嗨，我是漢娜，來自澳大利亞。

Diego: And I'm Diego from Mexico.

迭戈：我是迭戈，來自墨西哥。

Hanna: And today we're asking the question when is the best time to marry? What do you think Diego?

漢娜：今天我們要討論的話題是，什麼時候是結婚的最佳時間？迭戈，你怎麼看？

Diego: I don't know. The question gives me the chills. I have no idea when I'm going to get married so I honestly have no clue. But in Mexico at least, people tend to get married before they are thirty and after they are twenty five so maybe twenty seven, twenty eight would be the average today.

迭戈：我不知道。這個問題讓我發冷。我不知道我什麼時候會結婚，說實話，我真的不知道。不過至少在墨西哥，人們一般在25歲以後、30歲之前結婚，現在的平均結婚年齡大概是二十七八歲。

Hanna: Oh really, that's quite early.

漢娜：哦，真的嗎，那太早了。

Diego: Really.

迭戈：真的。

Hanna: In Australia people tend to get married quite late especially childbirth. Most people don't have their first child until around thirty five or forty.

漢娜：在澳大利亞，人們一般晚婚，而且晚育。大多數人在35或40歲左右才生第一胎。

Diego: Wow, that's really late for Mexicans.

迭戈：哇哦，那對墨西哥人來說太晚了。

Hanna: I'm not sure about marriage but I think if you're going to have children you should get married earlier because once you get a bit older biologically you're not really able to have children as well and you're not as fit as you used to be. So probably the same as you maybe twenty five or thirty.

漢娜：結婚年齡我說不好，不過我認爲，如果打算要孩子，那應該早點結婚，因爲從生物學角度來說，年紀大了以後，就不能生孩子了，而且也不像年輕時那麼健康了。所以，可能像你說的那樣，在25歲或30歲結婚合適。

Diego: Maybe. Yeah, I think so. I think that's the best age to get married.

迭戈：也許吧。嗯，我想是這樣。我認爲那是最佳結婚年齡。

Hanna: Yeah.

漢娜：對。

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重點講解：
1. be going to do sth. 將要，即將（發生）；
例句：He's going to fix a time when I can see him.
他會確定一個我和他會面的時間。
2. get married 結婚；
例句：If we ever get married we'll have one terrific wedding.
如果我們哪一天結婚的話，一定會有一個棒極了的婚禮。
3. tend to do sth. 往往會；經常就；
例句：It is worth remembering that children tend to copy their parents in this respect.
值得記住的是孩子們在這一方面往往會效仿父母。
4. be able to do sth. 可以…的，能夠…的；
例句：If only I could get some sleep, I would be able to cope.
要是能睡上一會兒，我就能應付了。