A：hi, how are you doing?嗨，过得好吗?
B：everything's great. And you?挺好的，你呢?
A：same here. Have you seen any new films recently?还老样子。最近看什么新电影了吗?
B：no, I haven't had a chance to. But I've been watching a Chinese TV series called Chinese-Style Divorce.没有，没机会去啊。但是我在看一部中国电视连续剧，叫《中国式离婚》。
A：oh, really? I saw it two years ago. It's worth seeing and it's thought-provoking.哦，是吗?我两年前就看过了。值得一看，很启发人。
B：yeah. I found it is so close to our life.的确，我觉得很贴近生活。
A：it reflects some of our difficulties in this ever-changing world.反映了我们这个变化莫测的社会中的很多现实的问题。
B：you said it. You know, the divorce rate has been on the rise in recent years.的确。近年来，离婚率不断增长。
A：well, it's said that a lot of young people favor getting married quickly which tend end quickly too.是啊，现在的年轻人流行闪婚，然后很快婚姻就破裂了。
B：I know a couple who divorced a week after getting married.我认识一对夫妻，他们结婚后一周就离婚了。
A：oh, that's too short-lived.那简直是太昙花一现了。
B：that's true. It's said the short-lived marriage is typical of the post-80s generation.是啊，据说，短暂的婚姻在80后一代很典型。
A：I can't agree more. The only-child generation in China tends to know little about marriage.完全同意。中国的独生子女一代，不太明白婚姻的含义。
B：definitely. They don't take relationships and marriages very seriously.的确，他们对待恋爱和婚姻都不那么认真。
A：in their mind, love is nothing but passion and marriage is over once the passion is gone.在他们看来，爱情就是激情，激情没了，婚姻也就结束了。
B：I think, as the saying goes as the saying goes haste makes waste, it is the same thing with marriage.我认为，“欲速则不达”，婚姻也是如此。
