He knew that if not for Moira, their marriage would not have contained enough happiness to keep him and Colleen together.

他明白，如果不是有莫伊拉，他在婚姻中体会到的幸福不足以让他和科琳守着对方。

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If this alliance is not for business, but for marriage, the aspects at play will also seem to work to stabilize your finances.

如果这个联盟不是商业性质的，而是关于婚姻，这个方面看上去也像是去工作来稳定财政。

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Even if she wanted to use marriage to the favourable exchange for his life, as long as she is not obscene by the despicable means, who have accused her of the right qualifications?

就算是她想用婚姻来换取自己的优裕生活，只要她不是用卑鄙下流的手段，谁又有资格有权利指责她什么呢？

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To cure the ills of single-parenthood, benefit-dependency and the like, he proposes a tougher welfare regime (though not all that different from the government's), tangible if unspecified support for marriage through the tax system and more job flexibility for parents.

ECONOMIST: David Cameron

Even some Republicans, like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, embrace the measure--which is being considered as a separate bill this week--which says, in effect, we will go along with this gratuitous marriage thing, but only if you are not using it as a smoke screen for wholesale discrimination against homosexuals.

CNN: The Marrying Kind

"As the demand for same-sex marriage is uncertain, and because these economic benefits are not guaranteed to be additional (for example, the spending on a civil partnership or marriage ceremony may not be additional if the couple and guests cut back on spending in other areas), we use zero benefit as our best estimate, " it explains.

BBC: Gay marriage: Eight things for better, for worse