1. There is a natural tendency for any relationship based on voluntary affection to come apart, but marriage provides the glue needed to keep a couple together by providing ties of family, in conjunction with the obligations of parents to children.
    任何建立在自发爱恋基础上的关系都会趋于自然终止，但婚姻建立起家庭纽带，以及父母与子女间的责任义务，这就提供了将夫妇联结在一起的粘合剂。

2. The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to pursue your own happiness.
    婚姻的全部意义就在于它予以夫妻双方清晰的责任义务，而不仅仅是追求个人幸福的权利。

3. Noyes decided that group marriage was the best way for men and women to live together.
    诺伊斯认为：群婚是男人和女人一起生活的最佳办法。

4. Nor, I would venture to suggest, is love enough to sustain a marriage relationship.
    我想冒昧地说，要维系婚姻关系，仅有爱也是不够的。

5. He´s become a lot more domesticated since his marriage.
    他婚后已非常恋家了.

6. He imputed the failure of his marriage to his wife´s shortcomings.
    他把婚姻的失败归咎於妻子的缺点.

7. Do you think sexual act outside marriage is wrong?
    你认为婚外性行为是不对的吗？

8. 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。

9. A more famous example of a different style of marriage is found among the Mormons.
    在摩门教徒中发现了一种更出名的、与众不同的的婚姻方式。

10. As part of our cultural background, beliefs about marriage can be as different as the cultures of the world.
    作为我们文化背景的一部分，婚姻观念就像世界各地的文化一样是形形色色的。