A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
婚姻
Marriage
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
我们当中有谁在后代降临之前就已经足够成熟到可以繁衍后代了?婚姻的价值不在于成人生孩子，而在于孩子生成人。
It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
当你一周又一周地做一个小时的节目时，婚姻是非常痛苦的。你没有足够的时间和你应该优先考虑的人在一起。
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
我发现这是一幅有趣的婚姻画卷，探讨了一方如何支持另一方，同时又不损害更大的利益——家庭。
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
当你结婚的时候，问自己这个问题:你相信在你年老的时候你能和这个人很好地交谈吗?婚姻中的其他一切都是短暂的。
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
有时候我觉得我丈夫太棒了，我不知道他为什么和我在一起。我不知道我是否足够好。但如果我能让他快乐，那么我就是我想成为的一切。
I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?
我不喜欢谈论我的婚姻，但是我要告诉你一些听起来很老掉牙但却是事实的事情。我在家吃牛排。我为什么要出去吃汉堡包?
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
难道婚姻不是一个悬而未决的问题吗?据说，从世界一开始，在这个机构里的人就希望出去，而在这个机构里的人又希望进来?
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
女人结婚前一个月对丈夫的看法和结婚一年后对丈夫的看法之间取个平均数，你就会知道他的真实情况了。
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
我姐姐正处于新浪潮的风口浪尖，而我父亲第一次结婚时的哥哥都是摇滚乐手，所以我接触到了很多流行文化。
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
婚姻有四个阶段。首先是外遇，然后是婚姻，然后是孩子，最后是第四阶段，没有这个阶段你就不可能认识一个女人，那就是离婚。
Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.
没有什么比坐在阴凉处，啜饮杜松子酒，沉思他人的风流韵事更令人愉快的了，只要婚姻的蛀虫还活着，小说就不会消亡。
I doubt if there is one married person on earth who can be objective about divorce. It is always a threat, admittedly or not, and such a dire threat that it is almost a dirty word.
我怀疑世界上是否有一个结了婚的人能对离婚持客观态度。无论承认与否，它总是一种威胁，而且这种可怕的威胁几乎成了一个肮脏的字眼。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
婚姻是一种制度，你必须全身心地投入其中。
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
婚姻既不是天堂也不是地狱，它只是炼狱。
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
让妻子让丈夫高兴地回家，让他让她难过地看到他离开。
There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
我所谓的“虚构”戏剧已经没有多少空间了。现在，戏剧来自真实的地方——婚姻需要工作和专注，孩子需要耐心和承诺。如果你不能像一个人或一对夫妻那样成长，那么你就有了真正的戏剧性。
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
我很高兴听到这个决定，因为我讨厌堂兄弟姐妹结婚，讨厌任何可以追溯到最遥远关系的人结婚。我追求进步而不是我们种族的堕落。
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
这段婚姻不是别人的事，而是我们自己的事。