Just as marriage, what you expect and what you experience after marriage are different.

恰如婚姻，您的期待与您婚后的经验是不同的。

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Just as marriage was the sole destination of life for females in ancient times, most love narrations in the Book of Poetry featured with marriage destination.

正因为古代婚姻是女性唯一的归宿和目标，《诗经》中的爱情大都有明确的婚姻目的性。

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If such contractual arrangements are really just as good as marriage, then what is a wedding good for, other than cake?

如果这些契约性的协议真的像婚姻一样美好，那么除了蛋糕，婚礼对什么是有用的呢？

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Indeed, it's a tacitly grim, as well as hilarious, picture of a couple struggling to make their marriage work, just as Ben and his achievement-free buds are a sharply comic reflection of American adolescence as a lifelong career.

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"For 5, 000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women, " Warren wrote in a newsletter to his congregation.

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Critics who dismiss reform of the House of Lords or legislation for gay marriage as unpopular irrelevances have just been given fresh electoral ammunition.

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