1. We can now not only choose our marriage partner, we also can divorce that partner at will, subject children to our own adult worship of happiness, and deny the other parent any regular contact with their children.
    现在我们不仅可以选择配偶，也可以任意与其离婚，将我们成人对幸福的崇拜置于孩子的利益之上，也可以阻止另一方与孩子有任何经常性的来往。

2. They allowed the visits to continue if they thought the boy was someone who would make a good marriage partner.
    假如他们认为这个小伙子是他们女儿可以托付终身的人，就会让这种拜访持续下去。

3. Despite all these unusual traditional ways of finding a marriage partner, one idea is the same throughout the world: Marriage is a basic and important part of human life.
    尽管有上述那些不寻常的寻找婚姻伴侣的传统办法，但有一个观点在全世界都是一样的：婚姻是人类生活中基本的、重要的一部分。

4. Another situation that calls for premarital agreements occurs when a potential spouse has, or is in line for, great inherited wealth or a family business, especially if the future partner has little or nothing at all.
    另一种要求签立婚前协议的情形是，未来的丈夫或妻子已经或即将继承巨额遗产或家庭产业，尤其是在未来伴侣家资不多或一贫如洗的情况下。

5. Yes,I would,but I don´t have a partner.
    是的,我想,但我没有舞伴.

6. Just then, his partner appeared. Slight and shorter, he held an enlarged blue steel pistol.
    就在这时，他的同伙出现了。他很瘦小，手持一支加大的蓝色钢制左轮手枪。

7. I remember the bright-red tobacco tin, with a picture of Queen Victoria's partner, Prince Albert, dressed in a black dress coat and carrying a cane.
    我还记得那鲜红的烟丝罐头，上面有一张维多利亚女王的丈夫阿尔伯特亲王身穿黑色燕尾服、手拿一支手杖的图片。

8. In Oona O'Neill Chaplin, he found a partner whose stability and affection spanned the 37 years age difference between them that had seemed so threatening that when the official who was marrying them in 1942, turned to the beautiful girl of 17 who'd g
    他找到了沃娜·奥尼尔·卓别林这个伴侣。她的稳定和深情跨越了他们之间37岁的年龄差距。他们的年龄差别太大，以致当1942年他们要结婚时，新娘公布了他们的结婚日期后，为他们办理手续的官员问这位漂亮的17岁姑娘：

9. Four years later, while preparing for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, I learned my partner had AIDS. I had to accept I might be HIV-positive or have AIDS, too.
    四年之后，当我为1988年汉城奥运会准备时，了解到我的伴侣得了艾滋病。我可能也是艾滋病毒阳性或染上了艾滋病,我得接受这一现实。