Beth and I have been sitting silently in front of the TV set for 20 years, you can't tell me that's not marriage.

我和贝丝20多年来一直默默地坐在电视机前，你不能说这不是婚姻吧。

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Many of us have hopes and ideas of that perfect person crossing our path and leading us into at least a long, comfortable relationship, if not marriage.

我们中的大多数人都有这样的希望和想法：遇到心仪的人，并带我们进入一个至少漫长而舒适的关系，如果不是婚姻的话。

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The woman received the biggest part of the marital assets. Most men say, “It’s not marriage that scares me; it’s the divorce court I am most afraid of.”

大多数男人说，“让我害怕的不是婚姻；是离婚时的法院最让我恐惧。”

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Heather Heiman is a lawyer there. "We try not to demonize or vilify the international marriage brokerage industry as a whole.

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It's a transition, an evaluation of marriage that is not at all an easy one, however. There are debates.

这是一种转变，对婚姻的评价,那并不是一个简单的转变，当时也有争论。

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It's not about marriage, and marriage will still seem quite a ways off, I fear, when you read Lycidas, but we will be marking the transition to the poetry of marriage soon enough.

那不是讲婚姻的，我担心当你们读《利西亚斯》的时候，婚姻仍是一个走出的方法，但是我们,将很快标记诗篇中关于婚姻的转变。

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You saw no one, not your five-year-old, not your marriage counselor, not your sponsor, not even your dog.

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Furthermore, even if the Defense of Marriage Act is upheld, the law does not protect marriage within any state or city.

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But New York did not create gay marriage until 2011, so Windsor was not harmed by DOMA not allowing the federal government to recognize her marriage, since if the IRS used state definitions Windsor would still be regarded an a single woman.

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