【正文】 ”來 表達(dá)贊美。例如：London is the classic example of the scattered city. 倫敦是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)分散型の城市。classic 也可用作名詞，表示“文學(xué)名著；經(jīng)典作品；杰作”。2 classical 不能用作名詞，只能用作形容詞，表示“古典の；經(jīng)典の”。Classical music is music written by posers such as Mozart and Beethoven. 像莫扎特 和貝多芬所創(chuàng)作の音樂稱為古典音樂。反之，在前面 有一例中說可口可樂瓶子の設(shè)計是精彩の，一流の，所以是經(jīng)典（classic）之作，但很明顯可口可樂瓶子の設(shè)計不是古典の （classical）設(shè)計。Note: Classic fairytale romance is used to describe a romance blessed with unusual happiness. Colloquially, a fairy tale can also refer to any story extremely unlikely to be true.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 actually not like what they have assumed.5 In a way, love just happens when you least expect it. Who would have thought that Butch and I would end up getting married to each other? He became my boyfriend because of my shallow agenda: I wanted a cute boyfriend! (Para. 1) Meaning: Love es your way when you don’t really expect it. No one thought thatButch and I would finally get married. He became my boyfriend simply because I would like to fulfill my shallow wish: to have an attractive boyfriend in college.Meaning beyond words: Here is the suspense of the story – the author gives a broadhint that she will tell us how she and her husband got married at last.6 We met through my college roommate at the university cafeteria. That fateful night, I was merely curious, but for him I think it was love at first sight. (Para. 2)Meaning: At the school dining hall that important night, we were introduced to each other through my roommate. I met Butch just out of curiosity, but he seemed to fall 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 to please 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 additional meaning of “with eyes widely open”. Also, it usually implies “with great attention”。 my life was stale with no ponent of fun! I needed a boyfriend. (Para. 3)Meaning: College is definitely a nice place for education but should have some fun as well. Throughout my years at college, I had devoted all my time to study but hadn’t hadany fun yet. Now that I was graduating, I wanted to have a boyfriend to enrich my college life.15 Not just any boyfriend. He had to be cute. My goal that semester became: Be ambitious and grab the cutest boyfriend I can find. (Para. 3)Meaning: The one I wanted to date was not just an ordinary boy。 from being fearful of failing to resist his “bad boy image” to approving of being his girlfriend.20 And then I suddenly thought: “Oh my gosh! Am I his girlfriend? How did that happen?” (Para. 4)Meaning beyond words: All of a sudden, she realized that she had made a mistake because she was not really 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。27 Butch was granted reconsideration. And, once we became steadies, he coordinated his studies and social life, passing all of his classes. He eventually studied law. (Para. 7)Meaning beyond words: Here we see the turning point of the relationship between the two. Her suggestions did work well with Butch since he was granted reconsideration. Assoon as they became steady lovers, Butch balanced his studies and social life and passed every course. Finally, he studied law as had been planned.Note: Steady can also be used as a noun, as is in the text. It’s an oldfashioned Americanway to describe a boyfriend or girlfriend that someone has been having a romantic relationship with.28 Despite Butch’s somewhat wild character, at his core, he is always a perfect gentleman and deserves a lot of credit for that. (Para. 8)Meaning: In spite of Butch’s a little wild character, he was always a perfect gentleman in essence, for which he should be given recognition.29 True, he’d sometimes take the liberty of displaying hi