【话匣子英语】求婚

情侣交往一段时间以后，一方会向另一方求婚。

Maura: So, first, we’re gonna talk about how people propose. So, you have a couple, they’ve been dating for a while, and then they want to get married.

Harp¹: Yeah. And I would say it’s usually at least one year that they’re together.

Maura: Yeah, I would say that too. Sometimes I’ve even heard of people proposing on their one-year anniversary.

Harp: Yeah. There’s no set time that people are together before they propose or before they get engaged.

Maura: So, there’s been a couple that’s been dating for a long time and one person asks the other to get married, so one person proposes. And after the proposal, and once the other person, of course, agrees, they are engaged. So that’s the period of time after the marriage proposal and before the wedding.

1 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。