Even if you can't find anything wrong with that person, you need to recognize the importance of the promise you made before your mate, your friends, probably before your family, and before God.

即使你在这个人身上找不出任何缺点，你仍然需要认识到承诺的重要性，就是你在你的配偶、朋友，也可能是你的家人或是上帝面前所做的承诺。

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Some even think of their soul mate as literally the other half to their soul.

有些人甚至觉得灵魂伴侣简直就是他们的另一半灵魂。

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Your reviewer's office is easily the most untidy in The Economist (not entirely his own work, it should be said, thanks to the heroic efforts of his even untidier office-mate).

笔者的办公室简直就是《经济学人》杂志社最零乱无序的房间（这不完全是笔者的功劳，应该说还多亏了与笔者同间办公室的更为邋遢的同事的丰功伟绩。）

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But by sacrificing himself to ward off other amorous males (even when his mate is nothing but a dead mealworm), he certainly makes sure that it is his best shot.

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Mr Jarquin is now Mr Ortega's running-mate, even though in the 1980s he was also jailed by the Sandinists.

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Not long ago, finding a mate, or even a like-minded group of friends, was something that definitely happened in the "real" physical world.

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