然而，在很多非西方社会，一夫一妻制从未占主导地位。
In many non-Western societies, however, monogamy has never dominated.
有一种理论认为，两足动物的进化与核心家庭有关：一夫一妻制的父母合作照顾他们的后代。
One theory is that bipedality evolved in conjunction with the nuclear family: monogamous parents cooperating to care for their offspring.
富裕国家的人重视一夫一妻制，并倾向于不经常出轨。
People in rich countries value monogamy and tend not to stray often.
他们没有证明一夫一妻制会使物种趋向群居。
They do not prove that monogamy predisposes species towards eusociality.
所以鸟类是一夫一妻制，但它们也背叛，有限度地。
So birds are monogamous but they cheat as well, within limits.
在19个一夫多妻制物种样本中，16个物种的雄性中，各个年龄阶段的样本在给定的时间段中都比雌性更易死亡。
In 16 of the 19 polygynous species in their sample, males of all ages were much more likely to die during any given period than were females.
我知道忠实的非一夫一妻制夫妻，他们有些结婚了不住在一起。
And I know committed nonmonogamous couples, some of whom are married, who don’t live together.
不像其他的鱼类，它们是一夫一妻制并终生厮守。
Unlike most other fish, they are monogamous and mate for life.
很多人显然对一夫一妻制存在着误解。
There are apparently some misconceptions about this whole monogamy thing.
这就是为什么，他们通常不会意识到自己喜欢某个人，直到那个人离开了），女人的幻想就是一夫一妻制的关系。
That's why they often don't realize they feel something for someone until that person is gone.) Women's fantasies are about a monogamous relationship.
一夫多妻制现在仍然存在于一些少数的上层阶级中。
Polygamy still exists in some forms among upper class members of some minorities.
因此，如果你想研究一夫一妻制，法律又不允许你拿人类的爱情生活做实验时，你就可以找田鼠。
So if you want to study monogamy - and the government won't let you manipulate human love lives - you play God with the voles.
草原田鼠作为一种社会性生物，它是仅存3%的“一夫一妻制”哺乳动物中的一类。
The prairie vole is a sociable creature, one of the only 3% of mammal species that appear to form monogamous relationships.
一夫一妻制不仅是可能的，而且是必要的。孩子们必须有所依靠；你也必须有所依靠。
Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.
一夫一妻制一般是指即将要结婚的两个人六个月的相处时间，经过了一年的约会后，订婚是比较现实的下一个步骤。
Monogamy usually comes within six months for those who will marry, and after a year of exclusive dating, engagement is a realistic next step.
然而它的确是指他不尊重你，如果你赞同一夫一妻制的话。
It does, however, mean he doesn't respect you if you'd agreed to be monogamous.
我们对一夫一妻制的理解主要来自鸟类而非哺乳类。
Our understanding of monogamy draws heavily on birds rather than mammals.
这些类似老鼠的生物是哺乳动物中少数（不到5%）有人类一般的一夫一妻制倾向的动物之一。
These mouselike creatures are among the small minority of mammals — less than 5 percent — who share humans’ propensity for monogamy.
这些类似老鼠的生物是哺乳动物中少数(不到5%)有人类一般的一夫一妻制倾向的动物之一。
These mouselike creatures are among the small minority of mammals - less than 5 percent - who share humans' propensity for monogamy.
法国认为一夫多妻制是“对男女平等原则的严重违反”。
France considers polygamy "a grave infringement of the principle of equality between men and women".
一夫多妻制并不会创造额外的老婆，只会改变婚配机制。
Polygamy does not create extra wives - it just changes the dynamics of who marries whom.
不过社会提倡的是婚姻和一夫一妻制，那么为什么采取行动来改变现状呢？
Society values marriage and monogamy, though, so why isn't it doing anything about it?
举一个一夫多妻制的主题。
一夫一妻制不能绝对保证安全，除非你们都检查过身体且HIV都呈阴性。
Monogamous relationships don't guarantee absolute safety unless you've both been tested and are HIV-negative.
在哺乳动物中，它的与众不同之处在于它既是群居性的，也实行一夫一妻制。
What makes it unusual among mammals is that it is both sociable and monogamous.
宽松的继承法，再加上一夫多妻制，使得财富迅速消融于无数的索债人中。
The combination of generous inheritance laws and the practice of polygamy meant that wealth was dispersed among numerous claimants.
她的求爱故事反映了她那个时代的社会规范：一夫一妻制和婚姻对于人们来说并不是必须的，却直到死为止都是我们必须遵守的原则。
Her courtship story reflects the social norms of her time: monogamy and matrimony, not necessarily in that order, but certainly till death do us part.
她的求爱故事反映了她那个时代的社会规范：一夫一妻制和婚姻对于人们来说并不是必须的，却直到死为止都是我们必须遵守的原则。
Her courtship story reflects the social norms of her time: monogamy and matrimony, not necessarily in that order, but certainly till death do us part.
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