A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
婚姻
Marriage
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
婚姻，如果一个人愿意面对事实，是一种罪恶，但却是一种必然的罪恶。
To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
要得到快乐的全部价值，你必须有人与你分享。
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
我结过三对夫妻。我下个月就要结婚了。
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.
婚姻是一个可怕的公开承认一个严格的私人意图。
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
婚姻是一场盛宴，在这场盛宴中，优雅有时胜过晚餐。
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
婚姻及其附属的财产和嫉妒奴役了精神。
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
丈夫是情人的遗留物，在神经被抽离之后。
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
哪里有没有爱情的婚姻，哪里就会有没有婚姻的爱情。
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
婚姻是一项了不起的发明:同样，自行车修理包也是一项了不起的发明。
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
如果一个女人既不能爱也不能尊重，她答应服从就是不礼貌的。
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
我认为，就像婚姻一样，你知道什么时候该生孩子。
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
大学是一个在高中和早婚之间保持温暖的地方。
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
也许有好的婚姻，但没有幸福的婚姻。
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
但是,唉!有哪个可怜的女人受过这样的教育:她应该有一个比找个丈夫更高的目标?
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
婚姻对那些害怕晚上一个人睡的人是有好处的。
Marriage can be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out.
婚姻好比鸟笼:外面的鸟拼命想进，里面的鸟拼命想出。
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
当一个男人为他的妻子打开车门时，要么是一辆新车，要么是一位新妻子。
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the the other, to let her have it.
要使妻子高兴，只有两件事是必要的。一个是让她认为她有她自己的方式，另一个，让她拥有它。