At a typical commercial service, an applicant pays $80 to $125 to have his or her personal data stored in the computer for two years and $200 or so more if a marriage results.

在典型的商业服务中，申请人需要支付80到125美元才能将他或她的个人数据在电脑中存储两年；如果结婚了的话，则需要支付200美元左右。

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Monopoly: Marriage is the most common form of a monopoly, which is the situation when a market has only one seller of a good or service.

垄断：婚姻是一种垄断的最普通形式。它是这样一种状态，即一个市场只有一件物品或服务的唯一卖者。

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For some jobs, such as in the military and civil service, marriage is a requirement for promotion.

有一些职位，比如军人或是公务员，结婚是得到晋升的必要条件。

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After a quick marriage and service in the Marines, Jones was discovered by Starday Records co-owner Pappy Daily, who guided his early career.

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He reviews his farming childhood, his happy marriage to a good woman called Rachel and his wartime service in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Brigade, as he encounters a series of lovers, drifters, loners, psychotic hunters and sick illegal immigrants all of whom have something to teach him.

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"The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold, to the view that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman, " he told the British public service broadcaster.

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