印度新郎算不出15+6遭新娘悔婚

在印度，大部分婚姻都是父母包辦的。

An Indian bride has walked out of her wedding after her bridegroom-to-be failed to solve a simple maths problem, according to police in Uttar Pradesh.
印度北方邦警方透露，因準新郎未能解出一道簡單的算術題，印度一位新娘毅然悔婚。

The bride asked the groom to add 15 and six. When he replied 17, she called off the marriage.
這位新娘讓新郎算出15加6等于多少，新郎回答“17”。聽到答案后，新娘取消了這段婚約。

Reports say the groom's family tried to convince the bride to return, but she refused saying the man was illiterate.
有報道稱，新郎的家人力勸新娘回頭，但她斷然拒絕，稱未婚夫是個文盲。

Local police said they mediated between the families, and both sides returned all the gifts given before the wedding.
當地警方已介入進行調解。雙方已將婚禮前送抵的彩禮退還。

Most marriages in India are arranged by the families, and it is common for a bride and groom to get married without spending time in each other's company.
在印度，大多數婚姻都是由父母一手包辦。新郎新娘還沒好好處對象就結婚的現象比比皆是。

A police official of Rasoolabad village where the incident happened told BBC Hindi that local resident Mohar Singh had fixed his daughter Lovely's wedding to a man called Ram Baran.
事發所在地拉索拉巴德村的一名警官說，當地居民莫哈·辛格原本為女兒拉弗里與一名叫蘭姆·巴朗的男子定下了婚約。

"But just before the marriage ceremony Lovely came to know that Ram Baran is illiterate and she refused to marry," he said.
“但婚禮前拉弗里得知蘭姆·巴朗是個文盲，然后她就悔婚了，”他說道。

Mohar Singh told the Associated Press news agency that the "groom's family had kept us in the dark about his poor education".
莫哈·辛格表示自己一直被新郎的家人蒙在鼓里，完全不知道蘭姆是個文盲。

"Even a first grader can answer this [the maths test]," he said.
“哪怕是一年級小學生都能算對這道（數學）題，”他說道。

Last month, another bride in Uttar Pradesh married a guest at her wedding after her groom-to-be had a seizure and collapsed.
就在上個月，北方邦的另一位新娘在準新郎癲癇發作暈倒后與婚禮上的一位客人結了婚。

Reports said the groom was epileptic and he had kept the information from the bride and her family.
據報道，那位準新郎是個癲癇患者，但他一直向新娘及其家人隱瞞自己的病情。

Vocabulary:

illiterate： 文盲

seizure：癲癇發作

epileptic：患癲癇的

（譯者：張筱-SCNU，編輯 Helen）