Eventually Esteban persuaded her to accept an offer of marriage.

最终埃斯特班说服她接受了求婚。

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Then again, marriage does offer legal protections that are still important.

不过，婚姻能提供一些依然重要的法律保护。

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Eight other states offer civil unions that are legally equivalent to marriage.

还有八个州也向居民联合会提议了婚姻面前应该人人平等。

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Several countries,mostly in Europe, offer different levels of marriage rights to same-sex couples.

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Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.

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Alice herself, well played by the grave and spectrally pallid Mia Wasikowska, is no child but a stubborn young lady, scorning an offer of marriage in the overworld and descending, instead, to the subterranean.

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If Leahy were to offer a gay marriage amendment, attention would turn to Sens.

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