Traditionally, the woman has held a low position in marriage partnerships.

传统上，女性在婚姻伴侣关系中处于较弱的地位。

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The myth of success has even invaded our personal relationships: today it's as important to be "successful" in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business.

成功神话甚至已经侵入了我们的人际关系：今天，在婚姻或为人父母中取得“成功”和在事业中取得成功一样重要。

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Perhaps the greatest obstacle to friendship in marriage is the amount a couple usually see of each other.

对于婚姻中的友谊，也许最大的障碍是两口子经常在一起。

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In California,a federal judge is studying the evidence in a trial over a ban against same-sex marriage in that state.

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Now the treatises that Milton wrote on the rights of divorce in the 1640s are also extravagantly pro-marriage.

弥尔顿在17世纪四十年代写过关于离婚权利的论文,其中他也大力的支持婚姻。

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In this respect, he seems to have followed Spenser -- Edmund Spenser, whose Faerie Queeneis in large part a tribute to the sacrament of marriage, although interestingly The Faerie Queene, the great Spenserian poem, never actually manages to feature a marriage between two human beings.

这样看来，他似乎是,秉承了斯宾塞--埃德蒙·斯宾塞，他的作品《仙后》,很大程度上来说是对婚姻圣礼的颂词，尽管有趣的是，《仙后》,这一伟大的斯宾塞体诗歌，从没有真正意义上,在两人的婚姻中发挥重要作用。

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"Nothing in the proposed same-sex marriage laws require Christians to conduct or partake in same-sex marriage, and Lord Carey has no right to insist that his discriminatory and intolerant views should prevail over those of the public and Parliament, " executive director Keith Porteous Wood said.

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