Upper-Intermediate - Same-Sex Marriage (D2447)

A: 你刚刚有没有看微博,真是”毁三观“。
nǐ gānggāng yǒu méiyǒu kàn wēibó, zhēn shì” huǐ sānguān".
Did you just see Weibo? It's really mind-blowing.
B: 怎么了?
zěnme le?
What happened?
A: 福建有对“同志”结婚了,举办了盛大的婚礼。还在微博上贴了很多婚礼照片。
fújiàn yǒu duì" tóngzhì” jiéhūn le, jǔbàn le shèngdà de hūnlǐ. hái zài wēibó shàng tiē le hěn duō hūnlǐ zhàopiàn.
There's a gay couple in Fujian that got married. They held a grand wedding ceremony. They also posted a bunch of pictures on Weibo.
B: 这也很正常嘛。现在社会开明了很多,同性恋也不稀奇。
zhè yě hěn zhèngcháng ma. xiànzài shèhuì kāimíng le hěn duō, tóngxìngliàn yě bù xīqí.
That's pretty normal. Nowadays society is a lot more open. Homosexuality isn't so rare.
A: 虽然越来越多的人可以接受,但是举办盛大的婚礼总觉得有点奇怪。
suīrán yuèláiyuè duō de rén kěyǐ jiēshòu, dànshì jǔbàn shèngdà de hūnlǐ zǒng juéde yǒudiǎnr qíguài.
Although more and more people are able to accept it, I still think holding a grand wedding ceremony is a bit strange.
B: 他们也是人,也有情感需要。
tāmen yě shì rén, yě yǒu qínggǎn xūyào.
They're people too, and they also have emotional needs.
A: 不过在中国同性婚姻并不合法吧。
bùguò zài Zhōngguó tóngxìng hūnyīn bìng bù héfǎ ba.
But isn't gay marriage illegal in China?
B: 好像是的。不过国外有很多地方已经有同性婚姻法了,所以也有很多人去国外登记。
hǎoxiàng shìde. bùguò guówài yǒu hěn duō dìfang yǐjīng yǒu tóngxìng hūnyīnfǎ le, suǒyǐ yě yǒu hěn duō rén qù guówài dēngjì.
It seems so. But abroad in many places there are already gay marriage laws, so many people go abroad to register.
A: 我觉得也只能这样了。中国恐怕是不会通过这个法律的。
wǒ juéde yě zhǐnéng zhèyàng le. Zhōngguó kǒngpà shì bùhuì tōngguò zhè gè fǎlǜ de.
I think that it can only be this way. China probably wouldn't be able to pass that law.
B: 毕竟我们的传统观念里还是认为异性才能结婚。不过我还是希望我们的社会可以更宽容、更多元。
bìjìng wǒmende chuántǒng guānniàn lǐ háishì rènwéi yìxìng cáinéng jiéhūn. bùguò wǒ háishì xīwàng wǒmende shèhuì kěyǐ gèng kuānróng、 gèng duōyuán.
In the end, our traditional ideas still only consider heterosexual marriage to be mainstream. However, I still wish that our society could be more tolerant and diverse.
A: 恐怕在中国这条路还很长啊。
kǒngpà zài Zhōngguó zhè tiáo lù hái hěn cháng ā.
I'm afraid that China still has a long way to go on this road.

Key Vocabulary

微博 wēibó Weibo
huǐ destroy
三观 sānguān three outlooks: outlooks on the world,on life and personal values
同志 tóngzhì homosexual
举办 jǔbàn to hold
盛大 shèngdà grand
开明 kāimíng open-minded
同性恋 tóngxìngliàn homosexuality
稀奇 xīqí rare, unusual
情感 qínggǎn emotional
婚姻 hūnyīn marriage
婚姻法 hūnyīnfǎ marriage law
登记 dēngjì to register
恐怕 kǒngpà probably, be afraid of
通过 tōngguò to pass
毕竟 bìjìng in the end, after all
传统 chuántǒng traditional
观念 guānniàn idea,concept
异性 yìxìng heterosexual
宽容 kuānróng tolerent
多元 duōyuán diverse

Supplementary Vocabulary

人生观 rénshēngguān outlook on life
世界观 shìjièguān outlook on the world
价值观 jiàzhíguān personal values
开通 kāitōng to open up, open-minded
开放 kāifàng be open, to open up
非法 fēifǎ illegal
移民法 yímínfǎ ethnic law
交通法 jiāotōngfǎ traffic law
劳动法 láodòngfǎ labor law

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