趣味美文：全美同性恋婚姻合法

　　小编导读：同性恋婚姻于6月26日在全美合法化。众多明星大腕名人怪咖发推支持庆贺，这注定是人类历史上需要铭记的瞬间，是人类权益史上迈出的一大步!这是同性恋团体维权的胜利，是民众对性少数人群看法的普遍性改变，《华尔街日报》用列举数字的方法告诉我们：为了这一时刻，很多人已经等的太久!

　　美国同性婚姻合法化

　　On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court made ahistoric ruling that caught the world’s attention.Same-sex marriages are now legal across the US.The ruling came after an Ohio man’s struggle to havehis name placed on his husband’s death certificate.The 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，美国最高法院做出了具有历史意义的裁决，这也引起了全世界的瞩目。同性婚姻在全美实现了合法化。在这次裁决之前，一名俄亥俄州男子无法在丈夫的死亡证明上签上自己的名字。法院的判决为美国同性夫妻有权享有异性夫妻的所有福利，包括有权拥有州外结婚证。这就意味着许多美国保守州将不再禁止同性结婚，或是否认同性伴侣的婚姻权益。美国也成为了全球第21个同性婚姻合法化的国家。

　　单词、短语讲解：

　　1.same-sex marriage 同性婚姻

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

　　他被记者纠缠着问他关于同性婚姻的问题时，他至少说了这部分的话。

学习啦在线学习网 　　2.out-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.

　　争论的焦点在于，州政府是否有权向州以外的商家征收，州内居民消费时的销售税。

　　3.be entitled to 有…的资格

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

　　你可以发现，他们的债券价格会上升因为人们,已经发现你可能有权以票面价值。

　　4.same as 与…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.

　　一旦你得到一个这样的计算式，你对向量场做点积，这和前面这个不一样。