【正文】 ach other. (Para.11)Meaning beyond words: She felt very proud of her longlasting romantic, sometimeseven crazy love, which was just like a 29year long honeymoon for her and her husband.37 Our love menced with a casual attraction but bloomed into a mature loveand rich life. (Para. 11)Meaning beyond words: Completely beyond her expectation, love came to her as shestarted with a casual date but ended up growing into a mature love and rich life.Note: We usually use mence doing sth. or mence with sth. Also, in the US, theofficial col ege/university graduation ceremony is cal ed “mencement”. The wordrefers to the pletion of one’s education and the beginning of one’s new adult life.Note: The phrase “bloomed into a mature love and rich life” in the text is used figuratively,meaning their love was just like blossoms on a tree.。 from being fearful of failing to resist his “bad boy image” to approving ofbeing his girlfriend.20 And then I suddenly thought: “Oh my gosh! Am I his girlfriend? How did thathappen?” (Para. 4)Meaning beyond words: Al of a sudden, she realized that she had made a mistakebecause she was not real y ready to have a boyfriend yet.Note: “Gosh”, as an interjection, is used to express surprise. For example:*Gosh, I didn’t expect to see you here! 天哪，我沒想到在這里見到你！*Gosh, it’s so cold. 天哪，太冷了！*Gosh, there’s a lot of noise. 天哪，這兒真吵。Note: Classic fairytale romance is used to describe a romance blessed with unusualhappiness. Colloquially, a fairy tale can also refer to any story extremely unlikely to betrue.4 Perhaps, they’re right but it didn’t seem so at the time. (Para. 1)Meaning: My daughters’ perception may be right, yet our romance back then was actuallynot like what they have assumed.5 In a way, love just happens when you least expect it. Who would have thoughtthat Butch and I would end up getting married to each other? He became myboyfriend because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a cute boyfriend! (Para. 1)Meaning: Love es your way when you don’t real y expect it. No one thought thatButch and I would finally get married. He became my boyfriend simply because I wouldlike to fulfil my shallow wish: to have an attractive boyfriend in col ege.Meaning beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story – the author gives a broadhint that she wil tell us how she and her husband got married at last.6 We met through my college roommate at the university cafeteria. That fatefulnight, I was merely curious, but for him I think it was love at first sight. (Para. 2)Meaning: At the school dining hal that important night, we were introduced to each otherthrough my roommate. I met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed to fal in love withme as soon as he saw me.7 “You have beautiful eyes,” he said as he gazed at my face. (Para. 2)Meaning beyond words: The author was obviously attractive to Butch since he tried toplease her by praising her eyes.8 He kept staring at me all night long. (Para. 2)Note: Both gaze at and stare at mean “l(fā)ooking at something fixedly for a long timebecause of being attracted, surprised, or thinking, etc.”. Stare at usually has the additionalmeaning of “with eyes widely open”. Also, it usually implies “with great attention”。*Classical music is music written by posers such as Mozart and Beethoven. 像莫扎特和貝多芬所創(chuàng)作的音樂稱為古典音樂。classic 也可用作名詞，表示“文學(xué)名著；經(jīng)典作品；杰作”。當(dāng)你看到一場(chǎng)精彩的演出時(shí)，就可以說“That’s classic!”來表達(dá)贊美。He tries to locate his former sweetheart Melina from whom he has heard nothing for a very*long time. 他在努力尋找他以前的戀人梅利娜，他已經(jīng)很久沒有她的消息了。t even graduated from col ege yet! I real yloved him but was pessimistic about our chances for success.10 We married five years later.11 Our faithful journey of love and learning took us down rocky roads ofhardship and on smooth easygoing highways. It is a long, romantic,sometimes crazy, love story that sums up a 29year long honeymoon together*as a couple who are stil madly in love with each other. Ourlove menced with a casual attraction but bloomed into a mature love andrich life.Language Points:1 I smile at my two lovely daughters and they seem so much more mature than we,their parents, when we were college sweethearts. (Para. 1)Meaning beyond words: Married to her col ege sweetheart, the author n