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College sweethearts
1
I smile at my
two lovely daughters and they seem so much more
mature than
we, their parents, when we
were col ege sweethearts. Linda, who's 21, had a
boyfriend in her freshman year she
thought she would marry, but they're not
together anymore. Melissa, who's 19,
hasn't had a steady boyfriend yet. My
daughters wonder when they wil meet
their father and I had a classic fairy-
tale romance heading for marriage from
the outset. Perhaps, they're right but
it didn't seem so at the time. In a way,
love just happens when you least expect
it. Who would have thought
that Butch
and I would end up getting married to each other?
He became my
boyfriend because of my
shal ow agenda: I wanted a cute boyfriend!
2
We met through my col ege
roommate at the university cafeteria. That fateful
night, I was merely curious, but for
him I think it was love at first sight.
have beautiful eyes
night
long. I real y wasn't that interested for two
reasons. First, he looked like
he was a
real y wild boy, maybe even dangerous. Second,
although he was
very cute, he seemed a
little weird.
3
Riding on
his bicycle, he'd ride past my dorm as if
to be surprised to see me. I liked the
attention but was cautious about his
wild, dynamic personality. He had a
charming way with words which
would
charm any girl. Fear came over me when I started
to fal in love. His
exciting
attracted me? I always had an excel ent
reputation. My concentration was
solely
on my studies to get superior grades. But for
what? Col ege is supposed
to be a time
of great learning and also some fun. I had nearly
achieved a great
education, and
graduation was just one semester away. But I
hadn't had any
fun; my life was stale
with no component of fun! I needed a just
any had to be cute. My goal that
semester became:
Be ambitious and grab
the cutest boyfriend I can find.
4
I worried what he'd think of me. True,
we lived in a time when a dramatic shift
in sexual attitudes was taking place,
but I was a traditional girl who wasn't
ready for the new ways that seemed
common on campus. Butch
looked superb!
I was not immune to his personality, but I was
scared. The
night when he announced to
the world that I was his girlfriend, I went along
with him. And then I
suddenly thought:
did that
happen?
going to marry you one day and I
wil be a lawyer. You wil see.
5
I was laughing inside and said to
myself,
rebel without a good future.
He's my boyfriend because I hate my boring
student life. I just want to have
fun.
*
6
S
ure enough, the fol owing
month, I found out he had failed al his
courses. Consequently, he was going to
be expel ed from the university. To
my
disgust, he seemed resigned to his fate. I knew
there was hope, so I led
him to the col
ege secretary for reconsideration.
*
7
from UPenn and proceed to
the Col ege of Law,
on his behalf, which
was approved. Butch was granted reconsideration.
And,
once we became steadies, he
coordinated his studies and social life, passing
al of his classes. He eventual y
studied law.
8
Despite
Butch's somewhat wild character, at his core, he
is always a perfect
gentleman and
deserves a lot of credit for , he'd sometimes take
the liberty of displaying his love by
planting a kiss on my lips right in front of my
astonished friends who watched and
disapproved. But the truth is we had a
pure and responsible relationship for
seven ful years. Sitting by the palm trees,
hand in hand, we would listen to
romantic songs, watch the sunset,
and
weave dreams of being together with children of
our own, forever.
9
Two
years passed in a blur. One day, Butch took me by
surprise as
he knelt down and proposed
marriage holding a dozen red roses! Fil ed with
deep emotion, I confessed my love for
him,
brain woke up from fantasy land. I
cried out,
young to tie the knot. We
haven't even graduated from col ege
yet!
loved him but was pessimistic about
our chances for success.
10
We married five years later.
11
Our faithful journey of
love and learning took us down rocky roads of
hardship and on smooth easy-going
highways. It is a long, romantic,
sometimes crazy, love story that sums
up a 29-year long honeymoon together
*as a couple who are stil
madly in love with each other. Our
love commenced with a casual attraction
but bloomed into a mature love and
rich
life.
Language
Points:
1 I smile at my two lovely
daughters and they seem so much more mature than
we,
their parents, when we were college
sweethearts. (Para. 1)
Meaning beyond
words: Married to her col ege sweetheart, the
author now is happy
with
her
family and two grown daughters.
Note:
College sweethearts
refer to
someone with whom one is in love and by whom
one
is loved at col ege;
sweetheart is
equivalent to
lover
,
darling
,
beloved
, or
dear
. For
example:
*Wel done,
sweetheart, we are all so proud of you.
做得好，宝贝，我们以你为荣。
*My husband is the greatest guy in the
world; he was my col ege sweetheart.
我丈
夫是世
界上最棒的，大学时他就是我的恋人。
He tries to locate his former
sweetheart Melina from whom he has heard nothing
for
a very
*long time.
他在努力寻找他以前的恋人梅利娜，他已经很久没有她的消息了。
2 Linda, who’s
21, had a boyfriend in her freshman year she
thought she would
marry, but
they’re not together anymore. Melissa, who’s 19,
hasn’t had a steady
boyfriend yet. My daughters wonder when
they will meet “The One”, their great
love.(Para. 1)
Meaning
beyond words: Her two daughters are at the age of
just dating, but they
seem
to be very mature wondering when they
will meet their true love.
3 They think their father and I had a
classic fairy tale romance heading for marriage
from the outset. (Para. 1)
Meaning beyond words:
Her
daughters consider their parents’ marriage a
typical
conventional
romance
because
they
think
it
aimed
at
marriage
from
the
very
beginning.
Usage note:
classic, classical
1 classic
用作形容词表示
“
经典的；精彩的；一流的
< br>”
。例如：
*Death
on the Nile is one of the classic works of Agatha
Christie.
《
尼
罗
河
上
的
惨
案》是阿
加莎
?
克里斯蒂的经典作品之一。
*
口语中也会用到
classic
这个词。当你看到一场精彩的演出时，就可以说
“That’s
classic!”
来
表达赞美。
classic
用作形容词也表示
“
典型的；标准的
”
。例如：
*London is the classic example
of the scattered city.
伦敦是标准分散型的城市。
*This statement was a classic il
ustration of British politeness.
这项陈述是对英国
礼貌的一
个典型说明。
classic
也可用作名词，表示
“
文学名著；经典作品
；杰作
”
。例如：
*We have al the standard classics of
Hayao Miyazaki at home.
我们家有宫崎骏的
所有的
经典作品。
2 classical
不能用作名词，只能用作形容词，表
示
“
古典的；经典的
”
。例如：
*I spend a lot of
time reading and listening to classical music.
我花了很多时间阅
读和聆听
古典音乐。
*Classical
music
is
music
written
by
composers
such
as
Mozart
and
Beethoven.
像莫扎特
和贝多芬所创作的音乐称为古典音乐。
*
莫扎特和贝多芬所创作的音乐属于古典音乐
(classi
cal music),
但这些古典音乐经
久不衰，
有永久的意义和价值，所以这些音乐也可称为经典的音乐（
classi
c music
）
。反之，
在前面
有一例中说可口可乐瓶子的设计是精彩的，一流的，所以是经典（
classic
）之作，
但很明显
可口可乐瓶子的设计不是古典的
（
classical
）设计。所以，经典的
（
classic
）作品
不一定
就是古典的（
classical
）作品。
Note: Classic
fairy-tale romance is used to describe a romance
blessed with unusual
happiness.
Colloquially, a fairy tale can also refer to any
story extremely unlikely to
be
true.
4 Perhaps, they’re right but it didn’t
seem so at the time. (Para. 1)
Meaning:
My daughters’
perception may be right, yet our romance back then
was
actually
not like what
they have assumed.
5 In a way, love just happens when you
least expect it. Who would have thought
that Butch and I would end up getting
married to each other? He became my
boyfriend because of my shallow agenda:
I wanted a cute boyfriend! (Para. 1)
Meaning:
Love comes your way
when you don’t real
y expect it. No one
thought that
Butch and I would finally
get married. He became my boyfriend simply because
I
would
like to fulfil my
shallow wish: to have an attractive boyfriend in
col ege.
Meaning beyond words: Here is
the suspense of the story
–
the author gives a broad
hint that she
wil tell us how she and her husband got married at
last.
6 We met
through my college roommate at the university
cafeteria. That fateful
night, I was
merely curious, but for him I think it was love at
first sight. (Para. 2)
Meaning: At the school dining hal that
important night, we were introduced to each
other
through my roommate. I
met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed to
fal in love
with
me as soon
as he saw me.
7
“You have beautiful eyes,” he said as he
ga
zed at my face. (Para. 2)
Meaning beyond words: The author was
obviously attractive to Butch since he tried
to
please her by praising
her eyes.
8 He kept
staring at me all night long. (Para. 2)
Note: Both
gaze
at
and
stare at
mean “looking at somethin
g
fixedly for a long time
because
of
being
attracted,
surprised,
or
thinking,
etc.”.
Stare
at
usually
has
the
additional
meaning of “with
eyes widely open”. Also, it usually implies “with
great attention”;
gaze
at
usually
implies “in a dreamy and unaware state of
mind”.
9 I really wasn’t that interested for
two reasons. First, he looked like he was a
really
wild boy, maybe even
dangerous. Second, although he was very cute, he
seemed a
little weird. (Para. 2)
Meaning beyond words:
She
wasn’t interested in
him because she
got the impression
that he was wild and
strange, which il ustrates that she didn’t know
much about him
at the
beginning.
Therefore,
it’s
not
true
that
their
romance
was
heading
for
marriage
from the
start.
10 Riding on his bicycle, he’d ride
past my dorm as if “by accident” and pretend
to
be surprised to see me. I
liked the attention but was cautious about his
wild,
dynamic personality. (Para. 3)
Meaning beyond words: She understood
his little trick: trying to see her by
manufacturing excuses. Though she was
happy to be the focus of his attention, she
was
also very alert to his
wild and dynamic personality.
11 He had a charming way
with words which would charm any girl. (Para. 3)
Meaning: He knew how to please and
attract girls because what he said was always
pleasant to their ears.
12 Fear came over me when I
started to fall in love. His exciting “bad boy
image”
was just too tempting
to resist. What was it that attracted me?(Para. 3)
Meaning: I was in an awkward position:
I started to fal in love with him, but I was
also
afraid of that. His bad
boy image was too attractive to resist, but at the
same time it
was
somewhat
fearful. So, what exactly was it in him that
attracted me?
Note:
Tempting
is
a
present
participle
of
the
verb
tempt
,
used
as
an
adjective
to
describe
the
effect
that
something
has
on
someone’s
feelings.
For
example,
if
you
find
something
tempting/charming/
disgusting/frightening,
it
means
it
tempts/charms/disgusts/frightens
you. In English there are a group of
words describing an effect that something has
on your
feelings and ideas.
For example:
*a tempting job offer
一个诱人的工作机会
an
alarming increase in racial hostility
种族仇视的惊人增长