Up in the Air-11

Talk on marriage.

• This is how I start every day of my life.

• Now, this is gonna be a little difficult, so stay with me(认真听).

• You have a new backpack. Only this time, I want you to fill it with people.

• Start with casual acquaintances(熟人), friends of friends, folks around the office.

• And then you move into the people that you trust with your most intimate（隐私） secrets. Your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, your brothers, your sisters, your parents.

• And finally, your husband, your wife, your boyfriend or your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack.

• Don’t worry. I’m not gonna ask you to light it on fire.

• Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake（毋庸置疑）, your relationships are the heaviest components（部分） in your life.

• Do you feel the straps（肩带） cutting into your shoulders（紧紧勒着你的肩膀）? All those negotiations（谈判）, arguments, secrets and compromises（妥协）.

• Some animals were meant to carry each other(相互扶持), to live symbiotically（栖息地） for a lifetime. Star-crossed（命运多舛） lovers, monogamous（一夫一妻的） swans.

• We are not those animals. The slower we move, the faster we die.

• We are not swans. We’re sharks.

• Never want kids?

• Not a chance（绝不可能）.

• Never. Is that so bizarre(奇怪)?

• I just don’t see the value in it. All right, sell it to me.

• Sell me marriage.

• Okay, how about love?

• Stability, just somebody you can count on(指望，依靠).

• How many stable marriages(稳定的婚姻) do you know?

• Somebody to talk to, someone to spend your life with.

• I’m surrounded by people to talk to. I doubt that’s going to change（我不觉得这会改变）.

• How about just not dying alone?

• Starting when I was 12, we moved each one of my grandparents into a nursing facility（养老院）. My parents went the same way.

• Make no mistake, we all die alone.

• I should give you both a moment.(我需要给你们一点时间)

• No. No, that’s fine. I’m fine. It’s a pleasure to meet you.

• Maybe we should just all go up to our rooms and freshen up（梳洗打扮）.

• Or maybe a drink?

• Now you’re talking(你说的太对了).

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doubt与suspect这两个词的共同意思是“怀疑”。

它们的区别是:
1.两者都可以接that从句作宾语,但含义不同:
doubt的意思是“疑为非”;
suspect的意思是“疑为是”。

试比较:
I doubt that she is the criminal.
我不相信她是罪犯。(认为不见得)

I suspect that she is the criminal.
我怀疑她是罪犯。(认为有可能)