Learn English Vocabulary Daily #13.5 — British English Podcast · English Like A Native
本集介绍5个英伦英语词汇，包括动词propose和形容词customary，适合练习日常表达和文化词汇。通过真实语境学习，提升英语听说能力。
Hello, and welcome to The English Like a Native Podcast.
你好，欢迎收听《像母语一样说英语》（The English Like a Native Podcast）这个播客节目。
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 13, Day 5 of your English Five a Day.
我的名字是安娜，你现在正在收听《English Five a Day》节目的第13周、第5天的内容。
This is a series that aims to increase your active vocabulary by deep diving into five pieces every day of the week from Monday to Friday.
这是一个旨在通过每周一到周五每天深入分析五篇文本来扩充你的主动词汇量的学习计划。
Let's start this episode with a verb and it is to propose, propose.
让我们以一个动词来开始这一集的内容，这个动词就是“提议”（propose）。
We spell this P R O P O S E, propose, propose.
我们把这个词拼写为“P R O P O S E”，意思是“提议”或“建议”。
To propose is to ask someone to marry you.
提出求婚”就是向某人表达想要与对方结婚的意愿。
Okay.
好的。
There are other proposals that you can make, but often if you say to someone, oh, this person proposed,
还有其他你可以提出的建议，但通常如果你对某人说：“哦，这个人提出了这个建议……
and just leave it at that, then the assumption is that they have proposed marriage, so they've asked someone to marry them.
就这样吧，按照这种理解，他们应该已经提出了结婚的请求（即已经向某人表达了想要结婚的意愿）。
Now, in the past, it was always the tradition that the man would propose to the woman in the UK.
在过去，英国的传统一直是男方向女方提出求婚。
These days, it's not uncommon for a woman to propose to a man.
如今，女性向男性求婚已经不再罕见。
Obviously, times change and traditions evolve, and so it's not uncommon for a woman to ask a man to marry her.
显然，时代在变化，传统也在不断发展；因此，女性向男性提出结婚请求的情况并不少见。
Okay, so have you been proposed to or have you proposed?
好吧，那么你是被求婚了，还是你主动求婚了？
Do any of you have any amazing and romantic stories about an amazing proposal?
在你们当中，有没有人经历过那些令人惊叹且充满浪漫色彩的求婚故事呢？
Here's an example sentence.
这是一个例句：
"Do you think I was right to propose to Dan so soon after meeting?
你觉得我在认识丹不久后就向他求婚，这个决定正确吗？
I hope I haven't rushed into it."
我希望自己没有仓促行事。
Now, I personally receive multiple proposals via my DMs on Instagram and via email as well.
现在，我个人会通过 Instagram 的私信（DM）以及电子邮件收到很多提案。
It's the one thing that I found really peculiar when I started
这是我刚开始接触这件事时觉得非常奇怪的一点。
putting my face on the internet.
把我的照片放到互联网上。
The idea that people who don't know me, who have never met me would ask me to marry them,
竟然有人会认为那些根本不认识我、从未见过我的人，会向我提出结婚的请求……
flattering, and a little bit disconcerting, but yes I have been proposed to many times via text message.
这些提议确实很讨人喜欢，但同时也让人感到有些困惑……没错，我确实多次通过短信收到了求婚请求。
So, I have had experience there.
所以，我在那里有过相关经验。
Okay.
好的。
Next on our list is an adjective and it is customary, customary.
我们列表中的下一个词是一个形容词，它的用法是“ customary”（习惯性的、惯例性的）。
Customary spelled C U S T O M A R Y.
Customary”通常拼写为“CUSTOMARY”。
Customary.
习惯性的；惯例的。
Customary.
习惯性的；惯例上的。
If something is described as customary then it is usual.
如果某件事被描述为“惯例”（即人们普遍遵循的行为），那么它确实属于常规行为。
It is normal, or it could be the tradition.
这很正常，或许也是一种传统。
It's customary.
这是惯例。
Here's an example sentence.
这是一个例句：
"It's customary in some countries to ask the father's permission before proposing marriage to someone."
在一些国家，向某人求婚之前征求父亲的同意是一种惯例。
Many years ago, I was in a serious relationship, a long term relationship, with a chap, and I was getting cold feet in the relationship.
很多年前，我和一个男生保持着一段长期稳定的恋爱关系，但随着时间的推移，我开始对这段关系感到犹豫不决（或者说，我开始害怕继续这段关系）。
I was starting to feel we'd been together for quite a few years and I was starting to think,
我开始觉得我们在一起已经有好几年了，于是我不禁想……
I don't think this relationship is right for me.
我觉得这段关系并不适合我。
This man isn't the man I want to spend my life with, but he was completely the opposite.
这个男人并不是我想与之共度一生的人——实际上，他完全符合我对伴侣的期望（即是一个理想的伴侣）。
He was starting to decide that he did want to settle down with me and he'd invited me to go to Paris for New Year,
他开始考虑是否真的想和我安定下来生活，并且邀请我一起去巴黎过新年。
for the New Year celebrations and I had an inkling, I had a suspicion about how he was feeling and that he might propose.
在新年庆祝活动中，我隐约感觉到他的情绪有些异样，甚至怀疑他可能会向我求婚。
So, I phoned my mum and I said, "Mum, I think this man is going to propose to me.
于是，我给妈妈打了电话，对她说：“妈妈，我觉得这个男人要向我求婚了。