A：if you can choose, will you marry a foreigner or a Chinese?如果讓你選的話，你是愿意嫁給一個中國人還是一個外國人?

B：why? Did tom pop the question?為什么這么問，湯姆向你求婚了嗎?

A：not yet. But I wonder if I can get my parents’ consent.沒有，我怕父母不同意。

B：let me guess, your parents want you to marry a Chinese man, right?我猜猜，你父母一定是想你嫁一個中國人，對嗎?

A：you are right. It is giving me a real headache. I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place.是啊，我正頭疼呢，我覺得左右為難。

B：I used to have the same problem when I was with my ex.我和以前的男朋友談戀愛時，也遇到了同樣的問題。

A：oh, how did you deal with it?那你怎么解決的?

B：I just let it go and continued dating with my Korean boyfriend. But finally we broke up.我就順其自然，繼續(xù)和我的韓國男朋友約會，但是后來我們還是分手了。

A：oh, it’s a pity. What was the matter?太可惜了，為什么啊?

B：simple. We had personality clashes and there were too many cultural differences.很簡單，我們性格不合，雙方文化也有很多不同之處。

A：like what?比如呢?

B：he hoped to live in the Korean way and asked me to give up working and stay at home to take care of the family.他希望我過韓式的生活，要求我放棄工作，安心待在家里。

A：Oh, I see. In their culture women should put family first.這樣啊，在他們的文化里，女性應(yīng)該以家庭為重。

B：yes, he said it would be batter for me and for the whole family. But I simply can not quit working.是啊，他說這樣對我，對整個家庭都好。但是我就是不想辭掉工作。

A：so that's why it’s hard to have a happy marriage with a foreigner.所以和外國人結(jié)婚，很難幸福。

B：not really. There are many successful mixed marriage around us.也不一定，我們周圍不也有很多成功的例子嘛。