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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 college 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 will 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 shallow agenda: I wanted a cute
boyfriend!
2 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.
have
beautiful eyes
night long. 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.
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 fall in
love. His exciting boy image was just too
tempting to resist. What was it that
attracted me? I always had
an excellent
reputation. My concentration was solely on my
studies to
get superior grades. But for what?
College is supposed
to be a time of great
learning and also some fun. I had nearly achieved
a great
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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
common on
for the
new ways that seemed
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
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with him. And then I suddenly thought:
did
that happen?Then he whispered sweet words in my
ear and said,
going to marry you one day and I
will be a lawyer. You will see.
5 I was
laughing inside and said to myself, never marry
this guy. He's a
rebel without a good
future. He's my boyfriend because I hate
my boring student life. I just want to have
fun.
6 Sure enough, the following month,
I found out he had
failed all his
courses. Consequently, he was going to be
expelled from the university. To
my disgust,
he seemed resigned to his fate. I knew there was
hope, so I led
him to the college secretary
for reconsideration.
7 are going to graduate
with a BA in political science
from UPenn and
proceed to the College 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
all of his classes. He eventually
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
full 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! Filled with
deep emotion, I confessed my love for him,
brain woke up from fantasy land. I cried out,
heavens. No! We're too
young to tie the knot.
We haven't even graduated from college yet! I
really loved him but was pessimistic about our
chances for success.
10 We married five years
later.
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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 still madly in love with
each other. Our
love commenced with a casual
attraction but bloomed into a mature love and
rich life.
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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 college 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 college; sweetheart
is equivalent to lover,darling, beloved, or dear.
For
example:
Well 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 college sweetheart. 我丈夫是世
界上最棒の，大学时他就是我の恋人。
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の恋人梅利娜，他已经很久没有她の消息了。
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
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1 classic
用作形容词表示“经典の；精彩の；一流の”。例如：
Death on the Nile
is one of the classic works of Agatha Christie.
《尼罗河上の惨案》是阿
加莎·克里斯蒂の经典作品之一。
口语中也会用到
classic 这个词。当你看到一场精彩の演出时，就可以说“That’s classic!”来
表
达赞美。
classic 用作形容词也表示“典型の；标准の”。例如：
London is the classic example of the scattered
city. 伦敦是标准分散型の城市。
This statement was a
classic illustration of British politeness.
这项陈述是对英国礼貌の一 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 all the
standard classics of Hayao Miyazaki at home.
我们家有宫崎骏の所有の
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经典作品。
2 classical 不能用作名词，只能用作形容词，表示“古典の；经典の”。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
和贝多芬所创作の音乐称为古典音乐。
莫扎特和贝多芬所创作の音乐属于古典音乐(classical music),
但这些古典音乐经久不衰， 有
永久の意义和价值，所以这些音乐也可称为经典の音乐（classic
music）。反之，在前面
有一
例中说可口可乐瓶子の设计是精彩の，一流の，所以是经典（classic）之作，但很明显
可口可乐瓶子の设计不是古典の
（classical）设计。所以，经典の（classic）作品不一定
就
是古典の（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
really expect it. No one thought that
Butch and I would finally get married. He
became my boyfriend simply because I would
like to fulfill my shallow wish: to have an
attractive boyfriend in college.
Meaning
beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story –
the author gives a broad
hint that
she will tell us how she and her husband got
married at last.
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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 hall that important night, we were
introduced to each other
through my roommate.
I met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed
to fall in love with
me as soon as he saw
me.
7 “You have beautiful eyes,” he
said as he gazed 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.
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8
He kept staring at me all night long. (Para.
2)
Note: Both gaze at and stare at mean
“looking at something 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
illustrates 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”
pretend
to
and
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 “
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bad boy
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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 fall 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
temptingcharmingdisgustingfrightening, it
means it temptscharmsdisgustsfrightens
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
一个诱人の工作机会
an alarming increase in racial
hostility 种族仇视の惊人增长
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a welcoming smile 热情の微笑
a surprising
number of 数量惊人の
13 I always had an
excellent reputation. My concentration was solely
on my studies
to get superior grades. But for
what? (Para. 3)
Meaning: I was an outstanding
student who only concentrated on studies in order
to get
excellent grades. But so what?
Shouldn’t a good student also have fun?
14 College 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
boyfriend. (Para. 3)
Meaning:
College is definitely a nice place for education
but should have some fun as
well. Throughout
my years at college, I had devoted all my time to
study but hadn’t had
any fun yet. Now that I
was graduating, I wanted to have a boyfriend to
enrich my college
life.
15 Not just
any boyfriend. He had to be cute. My goal that
semester became: Be
ambitious and grab the
cutest boyfriend I can find. (Para. 3)
Meaning: The one I wanted to date was not just
an ordinary boy; he had to be handsome,
pleasant and attractive. My ambition for that
semester, therefore, was to find the cutest
boyfriend at college.
16 I worried
what he’d think of me. (Para. 4)
Meaning
beyond words: Her concern about how Butch would
look at her shows that she
was becoming more
interested in him and cared about his real
thinking.
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17
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. (Para. 4)
Meaning: It is true that we lived in an era
when sexual attitudes were changing
dramatically, but since I was traditional, I
wasn’t ready for the new sexual practice
seemingly common on campus.
18 Butch
looked superb! I was not immune to his
personality, but I was scared.
(Para. 4)
Meaning: Butch looked extremely wonderful. I
was surely influenced by his personality,
but
I felt scared.
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19 The night when he announced to the world
that I was his girlfriend, I went along
with him. (Para. 4)
Meaning: That night
when my boyfriend announced publicly I was his
girlfriend, I did not
have any objection.
Meaning beyond words: She has apparently
changed her perception of Butch, from
being merely curious about him at first to
becoming cautious about his wild, dynamic
personality later; from being fearful of
failing to resist his “bad boy image” to approving
of
being his girlfriend.
20 And then
I suddenly thought: “Oh my gosh! Am I his
girlfriend? How did that
happen?” (Para. 4)
Meaning beyond words: All of a sudden, she
realized that she had made a mistake
because
she was not really ready to have a boyfriend yet.
Note: “Gosh”, as an interjection, is used to
express surprise. For example:
Gosh, I didn’t
expect to see you here! 天哪，我没想到在这里见到你！
Gosh, it’s so cold. 天哪，太冷了！
Gosh, there’s
a lot of noise. 天哪，这儿真吵。
21 Then he
whispered sweet words in my ear and said, “
one
day and I will be a lawyer. You will see.” (Para.
4)
I’m going to marry you
Meaning: Then he
quietly said sweet words in my ear and said that
he would marry me
and I could eventually see
him become a lawyer.
22 I was laughing
inside and said to myself, “I’d never marry this
guy. He’s a
rebel without a good future. He’s
my boyfriend because I hate my boring student
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life. I
just want
to have fun.” (Para. 5)
Meaning: Though I
agreed to be his girlfriend, from my heart, he was
just a rebellious boy
without a bright future.
Therefore, I was not very serious about our
relationship. To me, the
only purpose to date
him was to get away from my boring student life.
23 Sure enough, the following month, I
found out he had failed all his courses. (Para.
6)
Meaning: Just as I had expected, he
didn’t pass any of his courses.
24
Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the
university. (Para. 6) Meaning:
As a
consequence, the university was going to dismiss
him from the school.
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25 To my disgust, he seemed resigned to his
fate. I knew there was hope, so I led
him
to the college secretary for reconsideration.
(Para. 6)
Meaning: What upset me was that he
seemed to accept his fate. As I knew there was
still
a hope, I took him to the college
secretary to see whether the decision could be
changed.
26 “You are going to
graduate with a BA in political science from UPenn
and
I told him, lodging an appeal on his
behalf, which proceed to the College of
Law,”
was approved. (Para. 7)
Meaning
beyond words: What she did for her boyfriend
indicated their relationship had
come to a new
stage. Besides encouraging him to consult with the
college secretary and
submitting the appeal on
his behalf, she also planned for his future
career. She told him
he had to continue
his studies at law school.
Note: Besides a
noun, “proceed to” can also be followed by a verb
phrase. For example:
Having said how much she
liked my idea, she then proceeded to make critical
comments
about it.
说完她是多么喜欢我の点子，她接着就提出了批评性の意见。
27 Butch
was granted reconsideration. And, once we became
steadies, he
coordinated his studies and
social life, passing all of his classes. He
eventually
studied law. (Para. 7)
Meaning
beyond words: Here we see the turning point of the
relationship between the
two. Her suggestions
did work well with Butch since he was granted
reconsideration. As
soon as they became steady
lovers, Butch balanced his studies and social life
and passed
every course. Finally, he studied
law as had been planned.
Note: Steady can also
be used as a noun, as is in the text. It’s an old-
fashioned American
way to describe a
boyfriend or girlfriend that someone has been
having a romantic
relationship with.
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28 Despite Butch’s
somewhat wild character, at his core, he is always
a perfect
gentleman and deserves a lot of
credit for that. (Para. 8)
Meaning: In spite
of Butch’s a little wild character, he was always
a perfect gentleman in
essence, for which he
should be given recognition.
29 True,
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. (Para.
8)
Meaning: Without my
permission, sometimes he would press a kiss on my
lips to show
his love in front of my friends,
who were astonished and resented what he did.
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Note: “Plant a kiss”
is a figurative use of the word plant, which means
an intimate and
publicly
demonstrative kiss showing his love to all who are
watching.
30 But the truth is we had
a pure and responsible relationship for seven full
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.
(Para. 8)
Meaning beyond words: Butch showed much
respect for her conservative perception of
love. For seven years, they just enjoyed their
romance in a traditional way.
31 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! (Para. 9)
Meaning: Two years passed so quickly that I
didn’t really remember everything clearly.
One
day, I was startled when Butch, holding a dozen
red roses, knelt down to propose
marriage.
Note: propose to sb. = propose marriage to sb.
32 Filled with deep emotion, I
confessed my love for him, “
roooomaaaantic!!”
(Para. 9)
How
Meaning: I admitted my
love for him with deep affection. It was super
romantic!
Meaning beyond words: She was so
happy and thrilled to accept Butch’s marriage
proposal that she said the word romantic in a
slow and exaggerated way.
Note: In informal
writing, people would emphasize something in a
similar way. For
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Thank you soooooo much!
真是太太太感谢您了！
33 Then my brain woke up
from fantasy land. I cried out, “Good heavens. No!
We’
re
too young to tie the knot. We
haven’t even graduated from college yet!” I
really loved him but was pessimistic about our
chances for success.(Para. 9)
Meaning beyond
words: All of a sudden, she woke up from the
romantic scene. Though
she already accepted
love from Butch and confessed her love for him,
she was not sure
whether they would get
married and have a happy ending as they were still
college students.
Note: It isn’t clear whether
this expression tie the knot derives from an
actual knot used in
marriage ceremonies
or whether the knot is merely symbolic of a
lasting unity. Knots have
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certainly been used in
marriage ceremonies for some time. The word knot,
although not in
the phrase tie the knot, has
been associated with marriage since at least the
13th century.
34 We married five years
later. (Para 10)
Meaning beyond words: Though
she was pessimistic about their chance for success
of
love, she accepted Butch’s proposal. They
got married five years later, which illustrates
their deep and true love for each other.
35 Our faithful journey of love and learning
took us down rocky roads of hardship
and on
smooth easy-going highways. (Para. 11)
Meaning: Our devoted and faithful love guided
us both in times of happiness and also in
times of hardship.
Note: The word rocky
comes from the noun rock combining with -y. A
rocky road refers to
a road full of
rocks, uneven or not flat. Words of this group
include: muddy, stony, grassy, snowy, rainy,
etc.
36 It is a long, romantic, sometimes
crazy, love story that sums up a 29-year long
honeymoon together as a couple who are still
madly in love with each other. (Para.
11)
Meaning beyond words: She felt very proud of
her long-lasting romantic, sometimes
even
crazy love, which was just like a 29-year long
honeymoon for her and her husband.
37 Our love commenced with a casual attraction
but bloomed into a mature love
and rich life.
(Para. 11)
Meaning beyond words: Completely
beyond her expectation, love came to her as she
started with a casual date but ended up
growing into a mature love and rich life.
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Note: We usually use commence
doing sth. or commence with sth. Also, in the US,
the
official collegeuniversity graduation
ceremony is called “commencement”. The word
refers to the completion of one’s education
and the beginning of one’s new adult life.
Note: The phrase “bloomed into a mature love
and rich life” in the text is used
figuratively,
meaning their love was
just like blossoms on a tree.
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新视野三版 读写 B2 U4
Text A
College sweethearts
1 I
smile at my two lovely daughters and they seem so
much more mature than
we, their parents, when
we were college 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
will 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 shallow agenda:
I wanted a cute
boyfriend!
2 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.
have beautiful eyes
night long. 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.
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 fall in love. His exciting boy
image was just too
tempting to resist.
What was it that attracted me? I always had
an excellent reputation. My concentration
was solely on my studies to
get superior
grades. But for what? College is supposed
to
be a time of great learning and also some fun. I
had nearly achieved a great
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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
common on
for the new ways that
seemed
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
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with him. And then I
suddenly thought:
did that happen?Then he
whispered sweet words in my ear and said,
going to marry you one day and I will be a
lawyer. You will see.
5 I was laughing inside
and said to myself, never marry this guy. He's a
rebel without a good future. He's my
boyfriend because I hate
my boring
student life. I just want to have fun.
6 Sure
enough, the following month, I found out he
had
failed all his
courses.
Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the
university. To
my disgust, he seemed resigned
to his fate. I knew there was hope, so I led
him to the college secretary for
reconsideration.
7 are going to graduate with
a BA in political science
from UPenn and
proceed to the College 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
all of his classes. He eventually
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
full 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! Filled with
deep emotion, I confessed my love for him,
brain woke up from fantasy land. I cried out,
heavens. No! We're too
young to tie the knot.
We haven't even graduated from college yet! I
really loved him but was pessimistic about our
chances for success.
10 We married five years
later.
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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 still madly in love with
each other. Our
love commenced with a casual
attraction but bloomed into a mature love and
rich life.
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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 college 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 college; sweetheart
is equivalent to lover,darling, beloved, or dear.
For
example:
Well 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 college sweetheart. 我丈夫是世
界上最棒の，大学时他就是我の恋人。
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の恋人梅利娜，他已经很久没有她の消息了。
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
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1 classic
用作形容词表示“经典の；精彩の；一流の”。例如：
Death on the Nile
is one of the classic works of Agatha Christie.
《尼罗河上の惨案》是阿
加莎·克里斯蒂の经典作品之一。
口语中也会用到
classic 这个词。当你看到一场精彩の演出时，就可以说“That’s classic!”来
表
达赞美。
classic 用作形容词也表示“典型の；标准の”。例如：
London is the classic example of the scattered
city. 伦敦是标准分散型の城市。
This statement was a
classic illustration of British politeness.
这项陈述是对英国礼貌の一 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 all the
standard classics of Hayao Miyazaki at home.
我们家有宫崎骏の所有の
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经典作品。
2 classical 不能用作名词，只能用作形容词，表示“古典の；经典の”。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
和贝多芬所创作の音乐称为古典音乐。
莫扎特和贝多芬所创作の音乐属于古典音乐(classical music),
但这些古典音乐经久不衰， 有
永久の意义和价值，所以这些音乐也可称为经典の音乐（classic
music）。反之，在前面
有一
例中说可口可乐瓶子の设计是精彩の，一流の，所以是经典（classic）之作，但很明显
可口可乐瓶子の设计不是古典の
（classical）设计。所以，经典の（classic）作品不一定
就
是古典の（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
really expect it. No one thought that
Butch and I would finally get married. He
became my boyfriend simply because I would
like to fulfill my shallow wish: to have an
attractive boyfriend in college.
Meaning
beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story –
the author gives a broad
hint that
she will tell us how she and her husband got
married at last.
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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 hall that important night, we were
introduced to each other
through my roommate.
I met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed
to fall in love with
me as soon as he saw
me.
7 “You have beautiful eyes,” he
said as he gazed 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.
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8
He kept staring at me all night long. (Para.
2)
Note: Both gaze at and stare at mean
“looking at something 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
illustrates 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”
pretend
to
and
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 “
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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 fall 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
temptingcharmingdisgustingfrightening, it
means it temptscharmsdisgustsfrightens
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
一个诱人の工作机会
an alarming increase in racial
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a welcoming smile 热情の微笑
a surprising
number of 数量惊人の
13 I always had an
excellent reputation. My concentration was solely
on my studies
to get superior grades. But for
what? (Para. 3)
Meaning: I was an outstanding
student who only concentrated on studies in order
to get
excellent grades. But so what?
Shouldn’t a good student also have fun?
14 College 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
boyfriend. (Para. 3)
Meaning:
College is definitely a nice place for education
but should have some fun as
well. Throughout
my years at college, I had devoted all my time to
study but hadn’t had
any fun yet. Now that I
was graduating, I wanted to have a boyfriend to
enrich my college
life.
15 Not just
any boyfriend. He had to be cute. My goal that
semester became: Be
ambitious and grab the
cutest boyfriend I can find. (Para. 3)
Meaning: The one I wanted to date was not just
an ordinary boy; he had to be handsome,
pleasant and attractive. My ambition for that
semester, therefore, was to find the cutest
boyfriend at college.
16 I worried
what he’d think of me. (Para. 4)
Meaning
beyond words: Her concern about how Butch would
look at her shows that she
was becoming more
interested in him and cared about his real
thinking.
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17
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. (Para. 4)
Meaning: It is true that we lived in an era
when sexual attitudes were changing
dramatically, but since I was traditional, I
wasn’t ready for the new sexual practice
seemingly common on campus.
18 Butch
looked superb! I was not immune to his
personality, but I was scared.
(Para. 4)
Meaning: Butch looked extremely wonderful. I
was surely influenced by his personality,
but
I felt scared.
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19 The night when he announced to the world
that I was his girlfriend, I went along
with him. (Para. 4)
Meaning: That night
when my boyfriend announced publicly I was his
girlfriend, I did not
have any objection.
Meaning beyond words: She has apparently
changed her perception of Butch, from
being merely curious about him at first to
becoming cautious about his wild, dynamic
personality later; from being fearful of
failing to resist his “bad boy image” to approving
of
being his girlfriend.
20 And then
I suddenly thought: “Oh my gosh! Am I his
girlfriend? How did that
happen?” (Para. 4)
Meaning beyond words: All of a sudden, she
realized that she had made a mistake
because
she was not really ready to have a boyfriend yet.
Note: “Gosh”, as an interjection, is used to
express surprise. For example:
Gosh, I didn’t
expect to see you here! 天哪，我没想到在这里见到你！
Gosh, it’s so cold. 天哪，太冷了！
Gosh, there’s
a lot of noise. 天哪，这儿真吵。
21 Then he
whispered sweet words in my ear and said, “
one
day and I will be a lawyer. You will see.” (Para.
4)
I’m going to marry you
Meaning: Then he
quietly said sweet words in my ear and said that
he would marry me
and I could eventually see
him become a lawyer.
22 I was laughing
inside and said to myself, “I’d never marry this
guy. He’s a
rebel without a good future. He’s
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life. I
just want
to have fun.” (Para. 5)
Meaning: Though I
agreed to be his girlfriend, from my heart, he was
just a rebellious boy
without a bright future.
Therefore, I was not very serious about our
relationship. To me, the
only purpose to date
him was to get away from my boring student life.
23 Sure enough, the following month, I
found out he had failed all his courses. (Para.
6)
Meaning: Just as I had expected, he
didn’t pass any of his courses.
24
Consequently, he was going to be expelled from the
university. (Para. 6) Meaning:
As a
consequence, the university was going to dismiss
him from the school.
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25 To my disgust, he seemed resigned to his
fate. I knew there was hope, so I led
him
to the college secretary for reconsideration.
(Para. 6)
Meaning: What upset me was that he
seemed to accept his fate. As I knew there was
still
a hope, I took him to the college
secretary to see whether the decision could be
changed.
26 “You are going to
graduate with a BA in political science from UPenn
and
I told him, lodging an appeal on his
behalf, which proceed to the College of
Law,”
was approved. (Para. 7)
Meaning
beyond words: What she did for her boyfriend
indicated their relationship had
come to a new
stage. Besides encouraging him to consult with the
college secretary and
submitting the appeal on
his behalf, she also planned for his future
career. She told him
he had to continue
his studies at law school.
Note: Besides a
noun, “proceed to” can also be followed by a verb
phrase. For example:
Having said how much she
liked my idea, she then proceeded to make critical
comments
about it.
说完她是多么喜欢我の点子，她接着就提出了批评性の意见。
27 Butch
was granted reconsideration. And, once we became
steadies, he
coordinated his studies and
social life, passing all of his classes. He
eventually
studied law. (Para. 7)
Meaning
beyond words: Here we see the turning point of the
relationship between the
two. Her suggestions
did work well with Butch since he was granted
reconsideration. As
soon as they became steady
lovers, Butch balanced his studies and social life
and passed
every course. Finally, he studied
law as had been planned.
Note: Steady can also
be used as a noun, as is in the text. It’s an old-
fashioned American
way to describe a
boyfriend or girlfriend that someone has been
having a romantic
relationship with.
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28 Despite Butch’s
somewhat wild character, at his core, he is always
a perfect
gentleman and deserves a lot of
credit for that. (Para. 8)
Meaning: In spite
of Butch’s a little wild character, he was always
a perfect gentleman in
essence, for which he
should be given recognition.
29 True,
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. (Para.
8)
Meaning: Without my
permission, sometimes he would press a kiss on my
lips to show
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Note: “Plant a kiss”
is a figurative use of the word plant, which means
an intimate and
publicly
demonstrative kiss showing his love to all who are
watching.
30 But the truth is we had
a pure and responsible relationship for seven full
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.
(Para. 8)
Meaning beyond words: Butch showed much
respect for her conservative perception of
love. For seven years, they just enjoyed their
romance in a traditional way.
31 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! (Para. 9)
Meaning: Two years passed so quickly that I
didn’t really remember everything clearly.
One
day, I was startled when Butch, holding a dozen
red roses, knelt down to propose
marriage.
Note: propose to sb. = propose marriage to sb.
32 Filled with deep emotion, I
confessed my love for him, “
roooomaaaantic!!”
(Para. 9)
How
Meaning: I admitted my
love for him with deep affection. It was super
romantic!
Meaning beyond words: She was so
happy and thrilled to accept Butch’s marriage
proposal that she said the word romantic in a
slow and exaggerated way.
Note: In informal
writing, people would emphasize something in a
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Thank you soooooo much!
真是太太太感谢您了！
33 Then my brain woke up
from fantasy land. I cried out, “Good heavens. No!
We’
re
too young to tie the knot. We
haven’t even graduated from college yet!” I
really loved him but was pessimistic about our
chances for success.(Para. 9)
Meaning beyond
words: All of a sudden, she woke up from the
romantic scene. Though
she already accepted
love from Butch and confessed her love for him,
she was not sure
whether they would get
married and have a happy ending as they were still
college students.
Note: It isn’t clear whether
this expression tie the knot derives from an
actual knot used in
marriage ceremonies
or whether the knot is merely symbolic of a
lasting unity. Knots have
a place in many
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certainly been used in
marriage ceremonies for some time. The word knot,
although not in
the phrase tie the knot, has
been associated with marriage since at least the
13th century.
34 We married five years
later. (Para 10)
Meaning beyond words: Though
she was pessimistic about their chance for success
of
love, she accepted Butch’s proposal. They
got married five years later, which illustrates
their deep and true love for each other.
35 Our faithful journey of love and learning
took us down rocky roads of hardship
and on
smooth easy-going highways. (Para. 11)
Meaning: Our devoted and faithful love guided
us both in times of happiness and also in
times of hardship.
Note: The word rocky
comes from the noun rock combining with -y. A
rocky road refers to
a road full of
rocks, uneven or not flat. Words of this group
include: muddy, stony, grassy, snowy, rainy,
etc.
36 It is a long, romantic, sometimes
crazy, love story that sums up a 29-year long
honeymoon together as a couple who are still
madly in love with each other. (Para.
11)
Meaning beyond words: She felt very proud of
her long-lasting romantic, sometimes
even
crazy love, which was just like a 29-year long
honeymoon for her and her husband.
37 Our love commenced with a casual attraction
but bloomed into a mature love
and rich life.
(Para. 11)
Meaning beyond words: Completely
beyond her expectation, love came to her as she
started with a casual date but ended up
growing into a mature love and rich life.
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Note: We usually use commence
doing sth. or commence with sth. Also, in the US,
the
official collegeuniversity graduation
ceremony is called “commencement”. The word
refers to the completion of one’s education
and the beginning of one’s new adult life.
Note: The phrase “bloomed into a mature love
and rich life” in the text is used
figuratively,
meaning their love was
just like blossoms on a tree.
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