Such practices often flout the law: whilst the legal age of marriage in India is 18 around half of the Indian women surveyed were already married by that age.

这种做法经常是置法律于不顾：尽管印度的法定结婚年龄是18岁，但是一半左右被调查的印度妇女在这个年龄之前已经结婚。

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Having taken the vow, everyone wants a long, loving and happy marriage, yet half of all marriages are destined to fail.

发过了结婚誓言，每个人都想拥有一个幸福长久的婚姻，然而却有一半左右的婚姻以失败而终结。

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Cheryl Cole split from her cheating husband Ashley yesterday after a tumultuous three-and-a-half-year marriage - and now faces a ?22million divorce battle.

谢丽尔·科尔昨日正式和丈夫阿什利分手，结束了三年半的婚姻生活，接下来面对的是高达2200万英镑的财产分割战。

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Of course, Beauvoir was one-half of a world-famous open marriage, and she was therefore not a model for most American women, even the most frustrated.

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In her first broadcast interview about the break-up of her marriage, Ms Pryce, 59, revealed that Mr Huhne told her their marriage was over during the half-time break of a televised World Cup match in June 2010.

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Though he's doesn't bear the Tata surname, he's linked to the family through his sister's marriage to Ratan Tata's half-brother Noel Tata, who was considered another contender for the chairman's post.

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