Even though marriage in Western societies has become a toothless tiger from a legal standpoint, it is still the ambition of most women and 91% of people still get married.

在西方社会中即使婚姻已经在法律上已经成为无齿大虫时，这依旧是大多数女人夙愿，91%的人仍然会结婚。

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Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that opens up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species.

洞察敏锐的小嗝嗝发现他的族人其实对龙族存有误解，他们的友谊打开了通往彼此世界的大门。

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Something else of national significance happened in July 1948: Britain's National Health Service opened for business, and immediately, doctors were overrun by women with completely prolapsed wombs, toothless men, shortsighted children millions of people who had lived with inconveniences and minor disabilities that made their lives more difficult, but who couldn't previously afford to correct them.

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Because at the end of the day, the NTSB can try to pass all the laws it wants, but if people don't get caught, then the law is toothless.

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But even the relatively toothless Welsh Assembly will have the power to scrutinise and alter the administration of Wales, and so give its people a greater sense of participation in their own government.

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