Within weeks, he was proposing marriage.

几个星期之后，他就跟她求婚了。

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It might be proposing marriage, asking for a raise, a wedding speech.

它可能是求婚，要求加薪，或者婚礼上的讲话。

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Some have even gone as far as professing their love and proposing marriage.

有人甚至走得更远，向他表达爱意和发出婚约。

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Contrary to the Americans who, in spite of blunt evidence, still worship the act of marriage, with its fairy-tale rituals of proposing and funny kneeling, the French have a much more pessimistic, more realistic even, vision of the knot.

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