No matter which girls he brought home, the young man found disapproval from his mother. A friend gave him advice.
不論他帶回哪一個女孩，年輕人發現他母親都不同意，有個朋友給他個建議。
“Find a girl just like your mother — then, she’s bound to like her.”
“找一個就像你母親的女孩─那麼，她一定會喜歡她。”
So the young man searched and searched, and finally found the girl.
所以年輕人找了又找，最後找到了一個女孩。
He told his friendly adviser: “Just like you said, I found a girl who looked, talked, dressed, and even cooked like mother. And just as you said, mother liked her”.
他告訴友善的建議者：“就如你說的，我找到一個看起來、講起話來、穿起衣服來、甚至作菜都像母親的女孩。並且就如你說的，母親喜歡她。”
“So,” asked the friend, “what happened?”
“所以，”朋友問，“然後呢？”
“Nothing,” said the young man. ” My father hates her!”
“沒有然後”年輕人說：“我父親討厭她！”
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【David’s Notes】
1. disapproval這個字是approval 加上否定字首dis-而成的，approval是“同意、批准”，因此disapproval 就是不同意、不批准了。那麼為什麼approval是批准呢？approval 是名詞，動詞形是approve，approve這個字是prove證明，透過“強調的造字法則”─重複字首加上a所造出來的。批准就是特別證明的意思。（有關“強調的造字法則”請參看http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/8/11/20/n2336113.htm
2.be bound to+V～這是個很常用的動詞片語，意思是“一定”。
I’m bound to come your birthday party tomorrow night.
我明天晚上一定會去你的生日宴會。
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