marriage简单

marriage

婚姻

A young man can [decide on] a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to [arrange] the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

年轻男子可以自己选定一位合适的配偶，然后请父母安排婚事商谈；也可能由男方父母来选择配偶，孩子在选择中几乎没有发言权。

Each spouse retains [whatever] property he or she [brought] into the marriage, and jointly-acquired property is [divided] equally.

夫妻双方各自保留婚前带入的任何财产，婚后共同取得的财产则平分。

John Gottman, the marriage expert, explains that we quickly “thin slice” information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in “thick sliced” long-term study.

婚姻专家约翰·戈特曼解释说，只有在把这种快速反应建立在“厚切片”式的长期研究基础之上后，我们才能可靠地对信息进行快速的“薄切片”判断。

Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.

后来他婚姻破裂，事业受挫，酗酒也变得严重起来。

We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War Ⅱ as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.

我们往往认为二战刚结束后的几十年是繁荣发展的时期：数以百万计的士兵返回家园，凭借《退伍军人权利法案》上大学，在婚姻登记处排起长队。