时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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St James's Palace has announced that while Miss Middleton will wear a wedding ring, Prince William has chosen not to.


Rings are typically exchanged by couples during their wedding to signify commitment to each other.


Does it matter if husbands don't wear a wedding band?


Prince William's father wears one, his grandfather doesn't and their decisions weren't seen as strange. But reactions to Prince William's decision show that wedding rings for husbands are now the norm.


One young man, who spoke 1 to the BBC, thinks William is setting a bad example, saying: "I think it's disgraceful really. It's tradition. You have to wear a ring really. And for someone of the royal family to do that, it's not right."


Broadly speaking, modern husbands tend to wear their wedding rings as a symbol of loyalty 2 and faithfulness. So not wearing one can seem unusual or even suspicious to some, although men haven't always worn them.


The wearing of wedding rings has been the done thing for centuries amongst wives but only became common practice amongst husbands during World War II. Men fighting overseas usually wore them as a reminder 3 of wives and families back home.


Wearing rings are a safety issue for men in certain manual jobs. But how does William explain his decision? A royal aide has said he "isn't one for jewellery".


Glossary 词汇表


typically 典型的 


a wedding band 结婚戒指 


a tradition 传统 


to tend to do something 往往/倾向于做什么 


to be the done thing 理所当然的事 


usually 通常地 


a commitment 承诺 


the norm 惯例 


broadly speaking 从广义上说 


unusual 不同寻常的 


common practice 惯常的做法 


to be one for something 喜欢某物的人



n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知,她才付应该交的房租。
学英语单词
A-Weighting
accompanying vein of hypoglossal nerve
acoustical absorptivity
alberto
Algol yellow gba
anaphora
audio-frequency oscillator
azel(-)scope
BAL (basic assembler language)
Balochi language
Biot Savart for mula
board out
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Brahea
braziliensis
break - even point
butea gums
by dint of
caput incuneatum
carnosinuria
Clematis chekiangensis
cold shocking water
communication mast
controlling lever link
cupach
decalcation
determining the nature of an offence
developed proven reserves
double possibitly
Elisp
European Molecular Bioglogy Laboratory
evidence in chief
false alarm
feminines
flopping
forficula auricularias
free end travel
freudian censor
GE-MRI
giga ton bomb
gonzague
guide coupling
gussyup
Hippocrates' theory of humor
house speaker
hydrogen regulator
inclusion metallic
intravesical pressure
jump-blues
keast
kvetches
latch onto sth
length of pretection
make a hash of it
mandarining
MATH-MATIC
mathematical induction
melanose or canker of citrus
micropool
Millain
misassembly
moose knuckle
Moustéru
nonartists
not north of
on the stuff
pecuniary interest
photocolorimetric method
physical harm
planimeters
pneumatic analog computer
pointsettia
pustular acrodermatitis
Q-matching
QMG
raphe postoblongata
remrefine
ricasetron
sarcomagenic
sardel
second-order maximum condition
SECPR
skeleton accounts T
slicing criterion
solitary cell
special sensibility
squeezablest
squishing
subsynchronous resonance
syalon
three-axis reference
timing cell
topological specialization
trailhands
tripod head
unadult
Veronica polita
White Panther
wire wrapped screen pipe
wpes
xang
Zoziv