Weddings publicly codify the private agreements (spoken or otherwise) that underpin your partnership, and they do it in front of your Great Aunt Ruth and your father's boss.

公开的婚礼相当于变了一份私人的协议（口头或其它方式），这将为你们的伴侣关系奠下基石，这些要在你的露丝好阿姨和你老爸的头头见证下完成。

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Please don't take after great Aunt Margaret, or Auntie Anne, or Uncle Andrew and definitely not your father, Charles.

别学玛格·丽特大舅妈，安妮舅妈和安德鲁舅舅，一定不能像你们的父亲查尔斯那样。

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Their revenues have been gnawed away by the increasing adoption of e-mail by everyone from busy offices to your great-aunt Flossy.

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