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進入《中英對照讀新聞》My wife smokes -- I want an annulment 我老婆抽菸—我要求婚姻無效
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Smoke got in his eyes. Too much of it, so he asked the Roman Catholic Church to annul his marriage when his wife refused to kick the nicotine habit.
煙霧飄入他的眼簾，令人忍無可忍，所以當他的妻子拒絕戒除尼古丁時，他要求羅馬天主教會撤銷他的婚姻。
That is just one of the, well, hazy cases that wound up before the Vatican’s Sacra Romana Rota, a top court which hears the most complicated of marriage annulment requests.
這只是層層上到梵諦岡羅馬聖輪法院的眾多晦澀案件之一，該單位是教廷審理最複雜的婚姻無效要求的最高法庭。
Others included women who wanted annulments because their husbands were "mammoni" （mamma’s boys） who were not able to cut the psychological umbilical cord with their mothers even though they are in their 30s or 40s or beyond.
其他的案子包括婦女要求婚姻無效，因為她們的丈夫是「媽媽寧」（媽媽的男孩），縱使已30、40餘歲或更年長，都無法割斷與母親的心理臍帶。
Among other reasons, annulments can be granted because of psychological immaturity of one or both partners at the time of the marriage, a hidden factor not known to one partner, problems of consent, lack of sexual consummation and forced marriages.
在其他原因中，諸如結婚時其中一方或雙方心理不成熟、一個不為一方所知的隱密因素、默契問題、缺乏圓房與被迫結婚等等理由，都可獲判婚姻無效。
In the case of the non-smoking husband, the health and physical fitness enthusiast asked his girlfriend to marry him on condition she would eventually quit smoking.
在這起不抽菸的丈夫案例中，這位熱中保健與鍛鍊身體的男子，當初是在女友終會戒菸的條件下，向她求婚。
She said yes and after they tied the knot she tried her best but her addiction was stronger than her and the marriage went up in smoke -- at least from the husband’s point of view.
她答應了，婚後並盡其所能戒菸，但她的菸癮強過她的意志，而這樁婚姻也化作輕煙；至少從丈夫的觀點是如此。
新聞辭典
annulment︰名詞，廢除、使失效；動詞為 annul。例句︰He asked the court to annul his marriage with his second wife.（他請求法庭撤銷他和第二任妻子的婚姻關係。）
tie the knot︰結婚。
go up in smoke︰燒掉；化為煙塵。在本文中係由「抽菸」引申而出。類似意義的用語還有go up in flames。
