趣味美文：全美同性戀婚姻合法

小編導讀：同性戀婚姻於6月26日在全美合法化。衆多明星大腕名人怪咖發推支持慶賀，這注定是人類歷史上需要銘記的瞬間，是人類權益史上邁出的一大步!這是同性戀團體維權的勝利，是民衆對性少數人羣看法的普遍性改變，《華爾街日報》用列舉數字的方法告訴我們：爲了這一時刻，很多人已經等的太久!

　　美國同性婚姻合法化

On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court made ahistoric ruling that caught the world’s -sex marriages are now legal across the ruling came after an Ohio man’s struggle to havehis name placed on his husband’s death court ruled that same-sex American couples are entitled to all of the same benefits asheterosexual married couples, including the right to have their out-of-state marriage licensesrecognized as legal. This means that conservative US states can no longer prevent same-sexmarriages or deny same-sex married couples marital benefits. The US is the 21st country tolegalize same-sex marriage as a nation.

2015年6月26日，美國最高法院做出了具有歷史意義的裁決，這也引起了全世界的矚目。同性婚姻在全美實現了合法化。在這次裁決之前，一名俄亥俄州男子無法在丈夫的死亡證明上籤上自己的名字。法院的判決爲美國同性夫妻有權享有異性夫妻的所有福利，包括有權擁有州外結婚證。這就意味着許多美國保守州將不再禁止同性結婚，或是否認同性伴侶的婚姻權益。美國也成爲了全球第21個同性婚姻合法化的國家。

　　單詞、短語講解：

-sex marriage 同性婚姻

例句：He was directing at least part of that quote toreporters pestering him about same-sex marriage.

他被記者糾纏着問他關於同性婚姻的問題時，他至少說了這部分的話。

-of-state 州外的

例句：At issue is whether states can force out-of-state merchants to collect sales tax on purchases by in-state residents.

爭論的焦點在於，州政府是否有權向州以外的商家徵收，州內居民消費時的銷售稅。

entitled to 有…的資格

例句：Lo and behold, their bonds would go up because people had discovered that you mightbe entitled to par.

你可以發現，他們的債券價格會上升因爲人們,已經發現你可能有權以票面價值。

as 與…一致

例句：Once you have such a formula, you do the dot product with this vector field, which isnot the same as that one.

一旦你得到一個這樣的計算式，你對向量場做點積，這和前面這個不一樣。