He married a number of wives in his declining years, and his life on the whole was by modern standards unedifying.

他晚年娶了好几个妻子，按照现代的标准，他的生活总的来说毫无教益。

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Women in Indonesia have secured modern divorce laws that equalize the rights of husbands and wives.

印度尼西亚妇女已经获得了现代离婚法的保护，享有和丈夫同等的权利。

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Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life.

在现代生活里，别人老婆的秘密是必不可少的奢侈品。

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Thus, modern guys want their wives in the kitchen so they can earn more and cheat on them?

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With a growing number of modern households that consist of two fathers and with many wives out-earning their husbands, perhaps the idea that the woman does it all, all the time, will go the way of the anti-chloroform argument and one day seem quaintly old-fashioned.

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Whereas daughters and wives once stayed at home to clean, cook and care for husbands, children and ageing parents, modern French women expect a life outside the home.

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