Today's methods of birth control make it possible for a couple to choose whether or not to have a child.
如今的节育措施使一对夫妇可以选择是否要生育孩子。
She says she already told the neighbours not to come over for a couple of days.
她说她已经告诉了邻居们这两天不要过来。
When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.
如果戈特曼博士真的想要评估一对夫妇是否会在一起，他会邀请他们到他的岛上静修处进行一个更长的评估：持续两天，而不是两秒钟。
It was perhaps when my parents—who also happen to be my housemates—left to go travelling for a couple of months recently that it dawned on me why I had not yet left the family home.
也许正是在我的父母——他们碰巧也是我的室友——最近离开家去旅行了几个月的时候，我才恍然大悟，明白自己为什么还没离开家。
I've needed a stiff drink a couple of times lately -- not for the alcoholic properties, but for the symbolism.
近来我偶尔会喝上一两杯烈酒，倒不是因为我贪恋杯中之物，而是为了追求某种象征意义。
It may take a couple of enthusiasts working evenings and weekends for a year or two-not to mention tens of thousands of dollars of their savings-to get a pet idea to the patenting stage.
将一个深思熟虑的想法变成一项专利，可能需要在一、两年的时间里，每周都有几个晚上再加上周末的时间满腔热情地工作，当然也少不了要从他们的积蓄中破费掉数万美金了。
In the absence of Shared children - the interest the best justifies state involvement in people's relationships - there is not much need for a couple to marry.
没有共同的孩子——人际关系中最佳的情形——因此情侣没有结婚的需要。
For simplicity's sake, this example makes a couple of simplifying assumptions here. It does not.
为了简单起见，这个例子做了几个简化假设。
Well, why not give the Vespa a reward for its hard work and take it for a couple of weeks to the land of its ancestors?
我何不奖励一下我那辛苦工作的“Vespa”，把它带到它的故乡去玩上几个星期呢？
If you know your partner loves to read on Saturday afternoons for a couple of hours, try not to schedule anything during that time.
如果你知道你的配偶习惯于在周六的下午进行几个小时的阅读，那就不要在这段时间安排任何事情。
The only thing missing here seems to be privacy, but that is currently not an issue for the couple.
这里唯一的缺陷似乎是少了点私密性，不过这对于这对夫妇来说算不上什么。
You do not necessarily need to use it right now, but as long as you set aside a couple of characters for it you can add it later.
您目前不一定需要使用该限定符，但是只要为其留出了几个字符的空间，以后您就可以添加该限定符。
Still, it’s not too shabby for a couple of people who churned out an accidental product in the name of love—for the Web, that is.
即便如此，当我们审视这几个人以热爱网络的名义一不小心鼓捣出的产物，也不能说它太过寒碜吧。这，就是博客了。
It's not easy for a low-key couple to maintain their love, especially when they are living under the spotlight.
对于行事低调的情侣来说，要维持爱情很不容易，尤其是当他们生活在媒体的聚光灯之下时。
Sometimes it does work quickly, but it's a method designed for effectiveness over speed, so it may work the same night, or it might take weeks if not a couple of months.
它有时候会很快奏效，但是这个方法的设计理念的着眼点是效果而非速度。所以它可能会在当晚奏效，或者需要几周甚或几个月的时间。
For a couple of simple axioms, design for everything to be split, and think BASE, not ACID.
还有两条简单的原则：把每样东西都设计成分离的；考虑BASE、而不是ACID。
It's easier for a couple to sidestep a huge argument (s) by not opening that Pandora's box.
对夫妻而言，为了回避一场大争吵而不去打开那个潘多拉的盒子更省事一些。
Btw, that's not the brightest idea - you should run for a couple years before attempting marathon training, or it'll be much, much more difficult for you.
(顺便说一下，那不是一个聪明的想法——你应该在练习数年后再尝试马拉松训练，否则的话，对你来说，那将是一件非常非常困难的事)。
Couples often were forced to stay together because their employers would not grant them permission or the couple felt uncomfortable asking for permission or having their private problems exposed.
有时夫妻不得不还要待在一起，因为他们的上司不同意他们离婚，或者向上司要离婚许可这种涉及隐私的事情让他们觉得不舒服。
Also, try not to set them up for failure by going too long without food or spending more then a couple of hours sitting in a car or plane seat.
同时，避免外出过长而不给他们准备食物或者数小时时间一直坐在汽车或飞机的座位数，这会令孩子们产生挫败感。
For a new advertisement, with only a couple of targeted clients, there are not many status messages, so you can view them all.
对于一条新的广告，除了一些目标客户外，并没有多少状态消息，因此可以一目了然。
"People change and relationships change and sometimes it's just not possible for a couple to ensure they're changing in the same direction," says Hall.
霍尔说：“人是不断变化的，彼此关系也在不断地变化，但往往是，一对夫妇不可能确保两人朝着同一方向改变。”
Keeping wines in your household refrigerator is fine for up to a couple months, but it's not a good bet for the longer term.
把葡萄酒放在你的家用冰箱几个月是没什么问题的，但如果是要放比较长时间的话就不大好了。
"Ideally you should date for a couple of years before engagement — and not just long distance," she says.
“理想化的情况是在你订婚前约会好几年- - -当然不要太长，”她说。
I'm not talking about the things that keep a couple together or what women are looking for in a husband, those things are much more complex.
我不想在这儿谈论夫妻之间如何幸福或女人想要在丈夫身上找到什么等这些复杂的问题。
And if love Bank balances drop below the romantic love threshold, a couple not only lose their feeling of passion for each other, but they lose their instinct to make each other happy.
如果爱情账户低于爱情的底线时，男女双方不仅会对对方失去热情，而且会失去为对方做让他快乐的事的本能。
Forcing the user to regenerate 2000 + pages for a design document just because a couple of details have changed in a single part of the design is not an optimal solution.
仅仅因为在这个设计中的个别部分中有两个细节发生了变更，就要迫使用户为这个设计文档重新产生2000 +页的文档，这当然不是一个合理的解决方案。
The transfer is going to happen asynchronously over a couple of business days (not unusual for inter-bank transactions), and the client can use the ID of the transaction to find out its status.
转账将在几个工作日后异步发生（这对于银行间交易很平常），客户端可以使用交易ID查询交易状态。
This limited support for customization results in a couple of problems: First, the execution time characteristics 15 of the generated code might not always be optimal.
这种对定制的受限支持导致了许多问题：首先，所生成代码的执行时间特性15可能不总是最优的。
In practice, testing occurred only every couple of days - not frequently enough for timely problem detection.
在实践中，测试要隔好几天才进行一次—间隔时间太长，无法及时检测问题。
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