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婚姻
Marriage
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
锁链不能把婚姻维系在一起。它是线，数百条细小的线，经年累月把人们缝合在一起。这就是使婚姻长久的原因——比激情甚至性更重要!
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
几乎每段婚姻中都有一个自私的和一个不自私的伴侣。一个人总是提出要求，另一个人总是让步，这种模式很快就变得僵化了。
I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.
我希望今年我能有孩子。我知道我对婚姻的看法可能更欧洲化。我不会说我不结婚，但这不是我的首要任务。
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
几乎没有人愚蠢到认为自己在任何领域都理所当然地应该获得巨大成功;然而，几乎所有人都认为，他理所当然地应该在婚姻中获得成功。
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
在极少数情况下，人们确实听说过一对已婚夫妇婚后坠入爱河的奇迹般的例子，但仔细观察就会发现，这仅仅是对不可避免的事情的一种适应。
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
如果有人谈论结合，忠诚，一夫一妻制的关系，爱，祝福;我觉得这听起来像婚姻。而祝福，你看，我认为正在破坏我们婚姻的圣礼。
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
我认为存在代沟。我个人期待，随着我们这一代成为领导者，你们将看到一个变化，我希望同性婚姻将成为这个国家的一部分。
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
为什么在几乎所有的社会中，已婚妇女都专门从事生育和抚养子女以及某些农业活动，而已婚男子却从事大部分的战斗和市场工作?
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
我认为女人是天生的看护者。他们照顾每个人。他们照顾自己的丈夫、孩子和狗，不会花很多时间只是回家和出去玩。
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
婚姻是一种与自然法则完美和谐的制度;而奴隶制和种族隔离制度的目的是残酷地压迫人民，从而违反自然法则。
We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
我们需要对传统婚姻的统一保护。你不能对婚姻这样的基本问题有不同的定义。婚姻保护修正案是解决这一问题的唯一办法。
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
任何婚姻，无论是幸福的还是不幸福的，都比任何浪漫的爱情，无论多么热烈，都要有趣得多。
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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。
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
我们被告知，人们保持爱情是因为化学反应，或者是因为他们对彼此保持好奇，因为许多善意，因为运气。但其中一部分必须是宽恕和感恩。
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。
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
在婚姻中，男人回家太晚是有风险的，但如果他回家太早，有时会带来更大的风险。
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
一个人的友谊，就像他的意志一样，会因婚姻而失效——但同样会因朋友的婚姻而失效。