摘要：Hi, everybody, welcome back to top words. My name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about 10 words for relationships and mar

Hi, everybody, welcome back to top words. My name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about 10 words for relationships and marriage. So let's go.

大家好，欢迎回到热门词汇。我叫Alisha，今天我们要讨论10个关于恋爱和婚姻的词汇。让我们开始吧。

Boyfriend, girlfriend, the first word or first pair of words is boyfriend or girlfriend, a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

第一个词或第一对词是boyfriend或girlfriend。

These are words we use for a person you are not married to but a person you are dating.

这些词用来形容你没有结婚但正在约会的人。

So if the person you see regularly, if the person you are in the relationship with is a boy, you can say he is my boyfriend.

如果你经常见面的人，如果你正在交往的人是个男孩，你可以说he is my boyfriend。

If the person you are in a relationship with is a girl, you can say she's my girlfriend. I want to see my boyfriend. I want to see my girlfriend.

如果你正在交往的人是个女孩，你可以说she's my girlfriend。I want to see my boyfriend. I want to see my girlfriend.

I haven't seen my boyfriend in a long time. When's next time you're going to see your girlfriend? So we use these for people we are not married to.

I haven't seen my boyfriend in a long time. When's next time you're going to see your girlfriend?我们用这些词来形容我们没有结婚的人。

They are just people we are dating. We can use the word especially for women.

他们只是我们正在约会的人。我们可以用这个词来专门形容女性。

We sometimes use girlfriend to mean our female friends, like I'm going for dinner with my girlfriends this weekend. In this case there's not really a romantic nuance.

我们有时用girlfriend来指我们的女性朋友，比如I'm going for dinner with my girlfriends this weekend。在这种情况下，并没有浪漫的意味。

Otherwise, there's that usually there's that nuance of dating someone. In a sentence: Do you have a girlfriend?

其他情况下通常会有约某人的意味。例如：Do you have a girlfriend?

Husband, wife, the next pair of words is husband and wife. Husband is used for a man you are married to. Wife is used for a woman you are married to.

下一对词是husband和wife。husband指嫁的男人。wife指娶的女人。

So husband and wife are kind of the same like there's a romantic or a special connection between you and that person. So husband and wife, you are married.

丈夫和妻子有点相似，就像你和那个人之间有一种浪漫或特殊的联系。husband和wife意味着结婚了。

We use these words for people who are married. My husband works hard every day or my wife really likes to fix cars in her free time, for example.

我们用这些词来形容已婚的人。例如，My husband works hard every day，或者my wife really likes to fix cars in her free time。

So we can use these to talk about that special person that we are married to in our lives. In a sentence: Your husband is really funny.

我们可以用这些词来谈论生活中一起结婚的那个特别的人。例如：Your husband is really funny.

Partner, the next word is partner, partner. So some people prefer to use a word like partner just to mean maybe there's a special person in their life and for whatever reason they prefer not use boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever.

下一个词是partner。有些人更喜欢用partner来表示也许他们生活中有一个特别的人，无论出于什么原因，他们都不喜欢用boyfriend或girlfriend或其他什么。

So we can use the word partner, just to mean a person you have a special connection with. So a partner can be a man or a woman.

我们可以使用“partner”这个词，仅表示与您有特殊联系的人。partner可以是男性或女性。

It can be you can use it for pretty much, any person that you have a special connection with.

它可以用于几乎任何与您有特殊联系的人。

But it usually means like some kind of romantic like you are the relationship you have with that person is different from all your other relationships.

但它通常意味着某种浪漫，就像您与那个人的关系不同于您所有其他关系一样。

It's a very special connection with that person. But this can mean people you are married to or you have like a specific union with.

与那个人非常特殊的联系。但这可以表示与您结婚的人或与您有特定关系的人。

You can use it for that, or you can use it for people you are dating, so your partner. So in a sentence: He and his partner are busy this weekend.

您可以将其用于此，也可以将其用于您正在约会的人。例如：He and his partner are busy this weekend.

Spouse, the next word is spouse, spouse. Be careful of the pronunciation with this, spouse. It sounds like mouse, not spose but spouse.

下一个词是spouse。注意发音。听起来像mouse，不是spose而是spouse。

Spouse is the correct pronunciation. Spouse means the person you are married to, the person you are in your legal union with.

spouse是正确的发音。spouse是指与您结婚的人，与您合法结合的人。

You are spouse, you're the person, the other person in your marriage. This can be a man or a woman. So we use this not so much in conversation but in lots of legal documents.

你是spouse，你是婚姻中的另一个人。可以是男人或女人。我们在日常对话中用得不多，但在很多法律文件中用得很多。

So like who is your spouse or please list your spouse's name or please write the name of your spouse in this box, for example.

例如，who is your spouse，或者please list your spouse's name，或者please write the name of your spouse in this box。

I don't hear I suppose from time to time you could say like my spouse is so and so. But again it sounds like something very very formal, not used so much.

我没听过，我想有时你会说我的配偶是某某。但这听起来很正式，不常用。

Usually we just say husband or wife or partner, but spouse is used in lots of documentation. So in a sentence: I think it's important to have a supportive spouse.

通常我们只说丈夫、妻子或伴侣，但配偶在很多文件中都有用。例如：I think it's important to have a supportive spouse.

Marry, the next word is marry, marry, as a verb, to marry. So when you use this, please use it in an expression like I want to marry person.

下一个词是marry，作为动词。当你用这个的时候，请用在I want to marry person这样的表达中。

So I want to marry Stevens, for example. I want to marry a kind of person too. So I want to marry a kind person. I want to marry a hardworking person.

比如，I want to marry Stevens。I want to marry a kind of person too。I want to marry a kind person。I want to marry a hardworking person。

We do not say I want to marry with blah blah blah. Don't use that. Sometimes my students say I want to marry with a kind person.

我们不会用I want to marry with。不要用那个。有时我的学生会说I want to marry with a kind person。

Don't use with, no with, no preposition there. I want to marry person, I want to marry a kind of person, should follow the verb marry here.

不要用with，没有with，没有介词。I want to marry person，I want to marry a kind of person，人应该跟在动词marry后面。

You can say like when do you want to marry blah blah blah person, for example.

例如，你可以说when do you want to marry blah blah blah person。

So you need to follow marry with the object, who are you going to marry, what kind of person are you going to marry. In a sentence: What kind of person do you want to marry?

你需要在marry后面跟上宾语，你要嫁给谁，你要嫁给什么样的人。例如：What kind of person do you want to marry?

Marriage, the next word is marriage, marriage. Please be careful. Many people confuse marry or get married and marriage. Marriage is the noun form, marriage is a noun.

下一个词是marriage。请注意。很多人把marry或get married和marriage混淆了。marriage是名词形式。

We cannot say I want to marriage with, I want to marriage someone, it's not correct.

我们不能说I want to marriage with，I want to marriage someone，这是不对的。

Marriage is a noun. We use marriage when we're talking about the concept of marriage.

marriage是名词。我们在谈论婚姻这个概念时会用marriage。

Like is marriage important to you or what's your idea of marriage or how has marriage changed in recent years or what do you think of marriage among young people in your country these days.

比如is marriage important to you，what's your idea of marriage，how has marriage changed in recent years，what do you think of marriage among young people in your country these days。

Marriage is used to talk about the concept of marriage, not so much in questions like your own wedding perhaps, but to talk about the the concept of marriage itself. So in a sentence: Is marriage important to you?

marriage用于谈论婚姻的概念，可能不是像你自己的婚礼这样的问题，而是谈论婚姻本身的概念。例如：Is marriage important to you?

Significant other, the next word is significant other, significant other. So significant means something of importance, of significance, something that is maybe different from the other people in your life.

下一个词是significant other。significant意味着重要的事情，意义重大的事情，可能与你生活中的其他人不同。

Your significant other, the other person in your relationship. Significant other refers to your husband, wife, spouse, partner, the special person.

Your significant other指你的亲密关系中的另一个人。Significant other是指你的丈夫、妻子、配偶、伴侣，特别的人。

That one special person in your life is your significant other, my significant other, his significant other. So you might also see this especially on the Internet.

你生命中那个特别的人是你的significant other，我的significant other，他的significant other。你可能也会在互联网上看到这个。

It's abbreviated, it's shortened to SO on the internet. So my SO thinks, my SO does, my SO blah blah blah. SO means significant other.

它在互联网上被缩写为SO。my SO thinks, my SO does, my SO blah blah blah。SO意味着另一半。

So the person I am married to or the person I am in a committed relationship with, this can mean married or not married, so significant other. In a sentence: You should trust your significant other.

我结婚的人或与我有承诺关系的人，这可能意味着已婚或未婚。例如：You should trust your significant other.

Break up, the next expression is break up, break up. So when you are dating someone and you decide the relationship is not going well or if something happens whatever, you decide to end a relationship.

下一个表达是break up。当你和某人约会，你觉得这段关系进展不顺利，或者发生了什么事情，你决定结束一段关系。

When you end a romantic relationship, we use the phrase break up, to break up with someone. Past tense is broke up. So break becomes broke in past tense.

当你结束一段恋爱关系时，我们会用break up这个短语。过去时是broke up。break在过去时中变成了broke。

I broke up with my boyfriend last week. I broke up with my girlfriend last week. I don't want to break up or breaking up is hard to do.

我上周和男朋友分手了。我上周和女朋友分手了。我不想分手，或者分手很难。

So break up refers to ending a romantic relationship. In a sentence: I think we should break up.

break up是指结束一段恋爱关系。例如：I think we should break up.

Divorce, the next word is divorce, divorce. So divorce is different from break up, because divorce refers to ending a marriage.

下一个词是divorce。divorce和break up不同，divorce是指结束婚姻。

So divorce and break up have roughly the same nuance, but divorce means to legally separate, to legally break up.

divorce和break up大致相同，但有细微差别，divorce意味着合法分居，合法分手。

So marriage means to like legally solidify, to legally create a relationship, but to divorce means oh no you've done separating, divorcing, so separating from the other person in the marriage.

marriage意味着合法地巩固、合法地建立一段关系，但divorce意味着分居，和婚姻中的另一个人分开。

So like I think we should get a divorce or I heard the divorce was very difficult or my neighbor got divorced last year or what do you think about divorce rates in your country. In a sentence: The neighbors got a divorce.

比如，I think we should get a divorce，或者I heard the divorce was very difficult，或者my neighbor got divorced last year，或者what do you think about divorce rates in your country。例如：The neighbors got a divorce.

Remarry, the next word is remarry, remarry. We've talked about the word or the prefix rather. We've talked about the prefix re before. Re means to do something again.

下一个词是remarry。我们讨论过这个词或前缀。我们之前讨论过前缀re。Re意味着再次做某事。

Remarry so means to marry again. So after a divorce, after legally separating from someone, so divorcing someone, if you choose to marry again, we use the verb to remarry, to remarry.

remarry意味着再次结婚。在与某人合法分居后，也就是与某人离婚后，如果你选择再次结婚，我们会使用动词remarry。

So after the divorce my neighbor remarried or it may be hard for people to remarry after a difficult relationship, for example. So remarry is to marry again. In a sentence: Do you think you'll ever remarry?

例如，after the divorce my neighbor remarried，或者it may be hard for people to remarry after a difficult relationship。remarry就是to marry again。例如：Do you think you'll ever remarry?

来源：英语东