That they should marry, small as is their chance of happiness, and wretched as is his character, we are forced to rejoice!

他们究竟结婚了。虽然他们不一定会过得怎么幸福，他的品格又那么坏，然而我们究竟不得不高兴。

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In her new book, Committed: a Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage, she writes: "we marry most often because we are in love and we think it will make us happy."

在她的新书中，她写道“我们结婚通常都是因为我们恋爱了，我们觉得结婚会让我们幸福。”

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While most people choose mates who are like them in many ways, new research exposes a big and important exception: When it comes to spending habits, we tend to marry our opposites.

大多数人都会选择在很多方面跟自己相似的伴侣，但新的研究却显示出一个重要例外：我们往往会选择跟自己花钱习惯完全相反的人结婚。

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Maybe happy people are more likely to marry and we had cause and effect the wrong way round.

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And if we marry those two approaches, then we are optimistic about success.

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You have to have a whole community response that says 'we will not marry our girls' so that no one feels that they are at risk of defying cultural norms.

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