While the freedom to marry for love had become socially acceptable, divorce was not. As in marriage, couples had to get the permission of authorities before they could divorce.

在过去，自由恋爱结婚虽然已经为社会所接受，而离婚则不然。夫妻双方需要得到单位的批准才能离婚。

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She tried to accept her marriage as her lot in life but could not.

她试图认命接受这桩婚姻，但做不到。

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Although many people do not think of homosexual relationships as resulting in a family, it has been estimated that about one of five gays and one of three lesbians enter a homosexual marriage.

虽然许多人不认为同性恋关系会产生家庭，但据估计，大约五名男同性恋者和三名女同性恋者中有一名进入了同性恋婚姻。

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"If your marriage is equal, holistically, in what you contribute it makes very little difference as to who's earning more money."

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Professor John Rogers: Milton is typically cited by literary historians as one of the first major English poets to praise in verse the institution of marriage.

约翰·罗格斯教授：文学家们说弥尔顿,是英国早期诗人中,赞美婚姻制度的一员。

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Nonetheless, I think it's safe to say you see a gradual decline in the cultural idealization of virginity and a corresponding increase in the valuation of marriage in this new form of chastity that we can think of as married chastity.

然而我认为这么说还是比较保险,你们看到童贞理想化的逐渐下降趋势,而同时婚姻定位的逐渐上升,以这种新形式出现的贞节，我们可以看做是婚姻的贞节。

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One suspects that the reality is more complicated, as in any marriage. (Who would have guessed that the lip-locked Gores, and not the tempestuous Clintons, would now be rent asunder?) Still, the task remains of making a happy marriage interesting and of doing so without the imaginative equipment and freedoms of fiction.

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All one need do is read the works of Jane Austin to see that even just 200 years ago, the conflict between marriage as a property relation and marriage as love was in full flower.

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Brian Binley (Northampton South) has accused the Prime Minister of being Nick Clegg's chambermaid while Peter Bone (Wellingborough) has said that, as in an unhappy marriage, there should be an early divorce with the Lib Dems.

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