Question

这篇英语短文是什么意思?

请帮忙翻译一下; In traditional Chinese cultures,marriage decisions were made by parents for their children.Parernts who wanted to find a spouse for their son or daughter asked a matchmaker to find someone with the right characteristics,including age and educational background.According to the Chinese way of thinkig,it would be a serious mistake to allow two young people to follow their romantic feeling and choose their own partners.The all-inportant decision of marriage was made by older family members,who understood that the goal of marriage was to the produce healthy sons.In tradtional Chinese society,sones were important because they would take positions of leadership in the family and keep the family name alive.
As part of our cultural background,beliefs about marriage can be as different as the cultures of the wourld.Whild the tradintonal Chinese did not believe that young people should be free to choose their own marriage partners,the Hopi,a native people of North America,had a very different idea about the freedom.The hopi allowed boys to leave their parners' home at age thirteen to live in a kiva,a special home for young males.Here they enjoyed the freedom to go out alone at night and secretly visit young girls.Most boys tried to leave the girl's home before daylight,but a girl's parents usually did not get angry about the night visits.They allowed the visits to continue if they thought the boy was someone who would make make a good marriage partner.After a few months of receiving visits,most girs became pregnant.As a consequence,they could choose their favorite boy for a husband.
The Hopi culture is not the only one allowed young people to visit each other at night.Some Bavarian people of southern Germany one had a "windowing"custom that took place when young woman left their windows open at night so that young men could enter their bedrooms.When a woman became pregnant,the man usually asked her to marry him.But women who did not get pregnant after windowing were often unable to find a husband.This was because fertility was a very important requirement for women in this culture,and the windowing custom allowe them to prove their fertility to others in the community.Some people are surprised when they learn of this unique custom the different ways of finding a marriage partner,one ida is the same throughout the world;Marriage is a basic and important part of human life.

Answer 1

传统的中国文化中，儿女的婚姻由父母决定。想为自己儿女找另一半的父母会去找媒人，让他们来寻找一个有着合适的个性，年龄和教育背景的人。根据中国式思考方式，让两个年轻人根据自己浪漫的感觉来选择伴侣是一个严重的错误。所有婚姻中的重要决定由家族的年长者作出，他们认为婚姻的目的就是传宗接代。传统的中国社会中，儿子是非常重要的，因为他们能领导这个家族并且延续家族的姓氏。

作为文化背景的一部分，世界各地的婚姻观念就像各国的文化一样不尽相同。中国是认为两个年轻人不应该自由选择婚姻伴侣，而北美的原始居民霍皮人却对自由的概念有着完全不同的理解。霍皮男孩到了13岁就要离开父母住进专门给年轻男子住的大地穴（kiva），在那里他们可以自由的在晚上出去并且和年轻女孩秘密约会。大部分的男孩会在天亮前离开女孩的家，然而女孩的父母也并不会对这些夜晚访客动怒。如果他们觉得这个男孩会是一个好的婚姻伴侣，他们会让这种夜访继续下去。在几个月的访问之后，大部分女孩会怀孕，于是她们就会选择自己喜欢的男孩成婚。

霍皮文化不是唯一一个允许年轻人夜间互访的文化。德国南部的巴伐利亚人有一种“开窗”的习俗，年轻的女子晚上将窗户打开以便男子进入她们的卧室。当女子怀孕后，男子会向她求婚。但是没有怀孕的女人就很难找到丈夫。这是因为在这种文化中，能生小孩是女人的一个非常重要的必要条件，而“开窗”习俗促使她们能为社会尽量多的生小孩。有些人会惊异于在各种找婚姻伴侣的方法中有这样一些奇特的风俗，但是有一个想法是世界一致的，那就是婚姻是人类生活中基本和重要的一部分。

Answer 2

有点点长哦~ 讲婚姻的嘛

Answer 3

Hopi的人很舒服的啊，

Answer 4

楼上的敬业精神真是值得钦佩啊^o^而且翻得也很好啊，赞一个

Answer 5

这也叫短？！