01. Marriage reveals your personality.

婚姻能够暴露本性。

02. Love should not blind a couple to the realities of their legal status as husband and wife.

对于合法的夫妻双方来说，爱情不该是盲目而不现实的。

03. Compatibility is a condition of a successful marriage.

和睦相处是婚姻成功的先决条件。

04. Marriage seems easier to under stand for what it cuts out of our lives than for what it makes possible within our lives.

看上去，婚姻让我们失去的，远比带来的多得多。

05. Good people can create a bad relationship in marriage.

有时，两个好人并不一定就能成为好夫妻。

06. In order to survive years of sameness and keep love alive in the family, the couple ought to attach great importance to choosing well.

要顺利渡过一个个乏味的日子，让家里一直爱意浓浓，夫妻双方在选择结婚对象之初，就需要特别慎重。

07. The truly lucky people are the ones who manage to become long-time friends before they realize they are attracted to each other.

在陷入热恋之前就自信能够长久保持亲密关系的人，才是婚姻中最幸运的人。

08. If the family life does not live up to the premarital expectation and not to be improved, some couples would choose divorce rather than staying together to suffer.

一旦婚后的现实与婚前的期望产生矛盾且不可调和，很多夫妇宁愿选择离婚而不是继续凑合下去。

09. When the passion no longer exists, there are more and more complaints and distrust in daily life.

当激情退去，生活中的抱怨和猜忌也就越来越多了。

10. As for the marriages of the Me Generation, they are greatly troubled by personality problems associated wÎth being the only child.

80后独生子女常常会因为他们性格的原因让婚姻生活麻烦不断。

11. Many young people deem that marriage will be expired when time obscures the passion.

很多年轻人认为，激情没有了，婚姻也就到头了。

12. Responsibility is of vital importance in sustaining a marriage.

要维系婚姻，最重要的就是双方的责任感。

13. Understanding your own personality is the important step in knowing how you relate to the world and those who around you.

了解自己的性格，对如何待人接物有非常重要的帮助。

14. If you understand which characteristics define you as an individual , it will make it easier to identify important characteristics in a prospective partner.

如果你对自己的性格有一定的了解，那么你在选择未来伴侣的时候，就会对他/她的性格是否与你合适有一个更清楚的认识。

15. A couple in a marriage just like a pair of shoes, each side of the pair can have its own personality.

婚姻中的男女就像鞋子中的一只一样，都有自己的个性。

16. Certain personality traits can affect a couple's ability to adjust to marriage.

人的某些性格特点影响夫妻双方对婚姻生活的适应能力。

17. People who expect perfection from their spouses may be especially likely to be dissatisfied, because their spouses will inevitably fail to meet these expectations.

通常，苛求配偶完美的人更容易对婚姻失望，因为他们的配偶通常都达不到他们的期望值。

18. Perfectionists often struggle in marriage.

在婚姻生活中，完美主义者常常会感到非常不适应。

19. If your partner treats people or clrcumstances m a way you can't accept, you will inevitably come to grief.

如果你对自己伴侣待人接物的方式不能接受，你就会不可避免地陷入痛苦之中。

20. A minute difference in personality before marriage may turn out an unbridgeable gap.

婚前微不足道的性格差异，婚后可能会演化成不可逾越的鸿沟。