Yao Ming marries long-term girlfriend

时间：2007-08-07 05:49:17

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NBA star center Yao Ming has got married to his long-term girlfriend Ye Li in their hometown Shanghai on Monday.
 
SHANGHAI, Aug. 7 - NBA star center Yao Ming has got married to his long-term girlfriend Ye Li in their hometown Shanghai on Monday.

 

A low-key wedding ceremony was held in the five-star Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai, and only some 70 family members and relatives were present, according to Zhang Chi, press representative of Team Yao, which manages Yao's career.

 

The ceremony, which lasted three hours, included exchange of rings, offering tea and flowers to parents to express gratitude1, and sharing of a wedding cake, according to Zhang.

 

About 100 security guards had worked for the nuptial2 in which only 10 dinner tables were arranged with each costing 12,300 yuan (1,618 U.S. dollars), local media reported.

 

Yao, 27 and 2.26-meter-tall Houston Rockets star, and his bride Ye, a 26-year-old, 1.9-meter-tall player on China's national women's basketball team, received their official marriage certificate in Shanghai's Xuhui District on Friday.

 

On July 31, the couple had been spotted3 near the Taihu lake in Lin'an of east China's Zhejiang Province taking wedding photos.

 

According to Yao' autobiography4, "Yao: A life in two worlds", he met Ye in 1999, when Yao was playing for the Shanghai Sharks. Their romance5 went public when the two were seen walking hand-in-hand at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

 

Yao will fly to Beijing Tuesday to attend celebrations for the one-year countdown to the 2008 Olympics on August 8, Zhang said.

 

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1 gratitude p6wyS     
adj.感激，感谢
参考例句：
  • I have expressed the depth of my gratitude to him.我向他表示了深切的谢意。
  • She could not help her tears of gratitude rolling down her face.她感激的泪珠禁不住沿着面颊流了下来。
2 nuptial 1vVyf     
adj.婚姻的，婚礼的
参考例句：
  • Their nuptial day hasn't been determined.他们的结婚日还没有决定。
  • I went to the room which he had called the nuptial chamber.我走进了他称之为洞房的房间。
3 spotted 7FEyj     
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
参考例句：
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
4 autobiography ZOOyX     
n.自传
参考例句：
  • He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
  • His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。
5 romance KXGx1     
n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇
参考例句：
  • She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
  • They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

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