[00:00.00]01. Marriage reveals your personality.婚姻能够暴露本性。

[00:05.70]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。

[00:15.36]03. Compatibility is a condition of a successful marriage.和睦相处是婚姻成功的先决条件。

[00:23.69]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。

[00:37.01]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。

[00:44.17]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。

[00:58.74]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。

[01:11.18]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。

[01:27.17]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。

[01:37.61]10. As for the marriages of the Me Generation, they are greatly troubled by personality problems associated w?th 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。

[01:50.94]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。

[02:02.37]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。

[02:10.89]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。

[02:20.80]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。

[02:34.79]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。

[02:45.79]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。

[02:55.64]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。

[03:10.75]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。

[03:17.97]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。

[03:30.55]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。