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| 发布时间：2006-9-1 12:19:41 | 信息来源：本站原创 | 浏览： | |
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Now, most listeners, being used to the Western style of courtship and marriage, will assume that this is the best system and the one with the greatest chance of producing a happy marriage. But pause and reflect. Marriage must always be something of a gamble. Going out with somebody for six months is very different from being married to them for six years.
It is true that American women, brought up in the United States, who married Africans and went to live in Africa, have sometimes found it exceedingly difficult to assume the role of the wife of an African living in Africa. However, my observations have led me to believe that various forms of arranged marriage have just as much chance of bringing happiness to the husband and wife as our Western system of choosing marriage partners.
Dentist: There we are. Now, open wide. Now, this won't hurt a bit. You won't feel a thing.
Patient: Aaaagh!
Dentist: Come along, now. Open your mouth. I can't give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
Patient: I ... I ... I don't want an injection. I hate needles.
Dentist: But it won't hurt you, I promise. None of us likes injections but sometimes they're necessary.
Patient: It will hurt, I know.
Dentist: Not at all. Look, I often deal with little children and they never complain; they're always very brave. Now, open wide.
Patient: I don't want an injection.
Dentist: But how else can I take out your tooth? It would hurt even more without an injection, wouldn't it? And the reason we're taking it out is because it's hurting you, isn't it? Once you've had an injection and I've taken out the tooth you won't have any more pain at all. So let's be brave. Open wide.
Patient: Aaaagh.
Dentist: But I haven't touched you yet. What are you shouting for?
Patient: You're going to touch me.
Dentist: Well, of course I am. I can't give you an injection without touching you. As soon as you've had the injection your gum will freeze and you won't feel a thing.
Patient: How do I know what you'll do while I'm asleep? You might rob me.
Dentist: Now, let's not be silly. You won't go to sleep. We don't do that nowadays. This will just freeze the area around the tooth so that you can't feel any pain while I'm pulling out the tooth. That's all. You won't go to sleep. You can watch everything I do in that mirror above you. Come along now.
Patient: I don't want to watch. I'll faint.
Dentist: Then don't look in the mirror. But there won't be a lot of blood. I promise you.
Patient: Blood! Blood! Why did you have to say that? I can't afford to lose any blood.
Dentist: Now let's not be silly. You can't take out a tooth without losing some blood.
Patient: Blood ...!
Dentist: But it's a tiny amount. You'll make it up in a day.
Patient: A night.
Dentist: All right, in a night, then. But as I said it's only a small amount of blood ...
Patient: Blood! Blood!
Dentist: ... and it isn't going to kill you.
Patient: Kill! Kill!
Dentist: Oh, don't be silly; of course it won't. You can't die from having a tooth pulled out. |
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