My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.
I asked her, “Do you know him?”
“Yes”, she sighed,
“He’s my old boyfriend… I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn’t been sober since.”
“My God!” I said, “Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”
And then the fight started…
Vocabulary Help
- boyfriend – namorado
- drunken man – bêbado
- fight – briga
- high school reunion – reencontro dos alunos do ensino médio
- keep (keep, kept, kept]) – ficar, permanecer
- know (know, knew, known) – conhecer
- nearby – próxima
- right after – logo depois
- sigh – suspirar
- sit (sit, sat, sat) – sentar
- sober – sóbrio
- split up – separar, terminar o namoro
- stare – encarar, olhar fixamente
- start – começar
- table – mesa
- take to drinking – começar a beber
- that long – por tanto tempo
- understand (understand, understood, understood) – entender
- wife – esposa
