生活美語《 He’s just got hitched》
He’s just got hitched
他剛剛結婚了
對話
Boris：Well, would you believe it? What got into him? We never thought he would.
鮑里斯：真是難以置信。他怎麼變了？我們從來想不到他會這樣。
Monica：Got into who? Who are you talking about?
莫尼卡：誰變了？你在說什麼人？
Boris：Hank Carter, my buddy from navy days. I've just got this e-mail from him, look!
鮑里斯：漢克．卡特，我當海軍時的夥伴。我剛剛收到他的電郵，看！
Monica：No, just tell me. Is he running for president or something?
莫尼卡：不看了，你告訴我吧。他要競選總統還是甚麼？
Boris：Very funny. No, he's just got hitched. At the age of 47!
鮑里斯：你這算是風趣吧。不是，他只是剛剛結婚了，四十七歲結婚！
Monica：Well what's so surprising about that? People get married when they're even older than that.
莫尼卡：這有甚麼奇怪？不少年紀更大的人都會結婚。
Boris：I know, it's just that Hank never had any interest in getting married. He had plenty of girlfriends but never anyone special.
鮑里斯：我知道，但漢克以前從來沒有打算結婚。他有很多女朋友，卻沒有特別喜歡哪一個。
Monica：Well some woman must be taking a big risk.
莫尼卡：嗯，和他結婚的女人，冒的險可不少。
多學一點點 真奇怪，他也結婚
鮑里斯收到漢克的電郵，說：Would you believe it? What got into him? 這兩句都是常用語。Would you believe it? 直譯是「你相信嗎？」有驚訝或不滿含義，例如：Would you believe it? He turned his back on me when I said hello to him（真是豈有此理，我跟他打招呼，他轉過身不理不睬）。
What got / has gotten into someone? 直譯是「什麼進入了某人體內？」換言之，某人似乎受到什麼力量支配，行為變得和平常不同，例如：What's gotten into the boss today? He's treating us all to lunch（老闆今天為什麼一改常態呢？他要請我們所有人吃午飯）。
莫尼卡問漢克是不是要競選總統，鮑里斯回答：Very funny。這表面意思是「真有趣」，其實是反話，等於說「我不覺得這玩笑有趣」，例如："Your wife called to say that there'll be no dinner for you tonight." "Very funny. Now tell me what she said."（「你太太打電話來，說今晚沒有飯給你吃。」「你太過風趣了。告訴我她說些什麼。」）
漢克令鮑里斯驚訝的是：He's just got hitched。Hitch的本義是「拴住」，例如：The donkey was hitched to a post（驢子給拴在柱上）。結婚就像把兩人拴在一起，所以俚語以get hitched來說「結婚了」。
另一同義說法是get spliced: splice的本義是把兩條繩子末端捻接起來，俚語也用來比喻結婚，例如：He was quite a rake before he got hitched / got spliced. Now he is a typical family man（他結婚之前，是個花花公子。現在，他卻是個典型的戀家男人）。
