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Jane和Nancy是闺蜜，成天形影不离，无话不谈。Jane今天得知一点让人惊讶的消息，便去跟Nancy说：

Jane: You are not going to believe this . Debbie and Ken are getting hitched next month! He finally popped the question last night.

Jane说到的get hitched是什么意思呢？今天，我们就来学习hitched这个原味表述。To be hitched means to be married. 在文中是表示“结婚”，经常和get搭配使用，即：get hitched。我们再通过下面的例句来熟悉它的意思和运用：

1. After dating for fourteen years, Jim and Jane are going to get hitched. （恋爱十四年之后，Jim和Jane终于要结婚了。）

Ps : after dating for +时间：恋爱多久后

2. Nancy and Jack just got hitched. They'er spending their honeymoon in Beijing. （Nancy和Jack刚结婚，他们正在北京度蜜月。）

Ps: spend one's honeymoon：度蜜月

3. Why on earth did they bother to get married?（他们干么费那么大事去结婚？）

Ps: on earth：究竟，到底 bother to do sth. ：费心去做某事

4. As soon as my divorce goes through, we'll get hitched.（一旦我的离婚申请获准, 我们就结婚。）

Ps : go through：审查 as soon as...：一......就......

Hitched 是非正式书面用语，那么，“Debbie and Ken are getting hitched next month!”用标准书面英语说则是： Debbie and Ken are getting married next month!

我们今天的学习就到此结束了，明天我们继续学习Jane说到的pop the question是什么意思，是“抛出个问题”的意思吗？如果您想知道答案，请明天来到我们的《点滴英语天天学》的课堂，来听Juliet老师说美语。See you!