女人香美丽英文人生幸福29篇[12]

　　Do you Treat Marriage As A Product
你把婚姻当成商品吗？
Your relationship must be evaluated based on your own needcks
Two friends from college premise¹ to write to each other when the marines call him off to active duty in the Gulf² War.Their letters go from friendly to intemate . Another letter from a military camp in Saudi Arabia contains a marriage prooposal.
More than a decade later,Tim and Karen both have been back to school for another degree and they have three children.
"Years two through four were volatile,"Tim remembers."Any little thing could set us off,"Karen agreed. "When you're young,everything is about you."
When times were at their worst,Tim fell back on his training for a business degree. " I began to think about how tough i had it, how people i knew seemed to be getting along much better.Then i thought about what i'd been taught i some of my businesses and marketing³ courses-that we have a consumer mentality⁴. Anything can be replaced if it stops meeting our needs. And I saw that people can do that to their relationships .I was doing that to my relationship-treating it as product and wondering if I couldn't trade it in for a better one. I was fee to put my energy into it, instead of putting my energy into wondering whether this was worth it." 

 

1 premise   

n.前提；v.提论，预述

参考例句：

• Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
• We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。

2 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

3 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

4 mentality   

n.心理，思想，脑力

参考例句：

• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.他研究犯罪心理有多年经验。
• Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。