I'm not even monogamous with the people I'm monogamous with.

我跟我该妻的 都不是妻制了。

The fact is that monogamy had nothing to do with love.

实际上妻制已经与爱情无关。

Unlike most animals, it seems that they're relatively monogamous, returning to the same partner year after year.

不像大多数动物样，它们看起来更像是妻制，每年都会回到相同的伴侣那里。

To understand this predisposition for monogamy, he takes readers through the myriad feelings of love, from the heady, breathless exhilaration of falling, to the stubborn persistence of familial affection, to the bitterness of betrayal.

为了理解妻制的偏向，邓巴博士带领读者体味了爱的各种感觉，从初坠爱河时忘乎所以，呼吸困难的兴奋，到义无反顾地维持家庭关系，再到遭到背叛时的心如刀割。

Yet it is a one-sided monogamy they seek.

然而，他们寻的是单方面的妻制。

For millions of years we have formed partnerships, pair bonding, or monogamy.

百万年来，我们形成了伴侣关系，结合或妻制。

Monogamy in animals… and let's be honest, in humans too… is a funny thing.

妻制在动物界——老实说在类中也如此——是件有趣的事。

An unnatural arrangement which forces its participants into an unhealthy monogamy.

种强迫参与者遵守不健康的妻制的违背常理的协定。

If there are difficulties around your sex life remember this — in a committed monogamous relationship you're the only other person who can give that to your partner.

如果你们的性生活有困难，请记住这点——在段忠诚的妻制关系中，你是唯能给你的伴侣性生活的。

It may be that tropical birds, which face more intense competition for food and nesting sites than temperate ones do because the tropics have more species, form more stable and collaborative pair-bonds than do temperate birds.

这可能是热带鸟类形成了更稳定更协作的妻制，因为热带有更多物种，热带鸟类比温带鸟类存在更激烈的食物竞争和巢穴竞争。

Only about 3% of mammals are monogamous, and, although 95% of birds pair off (at least for one breeding season) , paternity tests have revealed that the avian world is chock-full of cheaters.

只有大约 3% 的哺乳动物是妻制，虽然 95% 的鸟类都是成双成对的（至少在个繁殖季节内），但亲子鉴定显示，鸟类世界充满了骗子。

In particular, he is interested in why humans have developed such an affinity for “pairbonding”, despite the fact that strictly monogamous mating and rearing systems are not terribly advantageous in evolutionary terms.

邓巴博士尤为感兴趣的是，虽然就进化角度而言，严格的妻制及养育制并不占多大优势，但为何类还如此热衷于“培养两个的情侣关系”。

And I think we are still, you know, our age group, we still have the ghost of our parents' generation, which was fairly standardized, formalized idea of monogamy.

我认为我们仍然是，你知道，在我们这个年龄段，我们仍然有我们父母那代的影子，那是相当标准化、正式的妻制观念。

A master-bedroom painting declares I Love Us. Deanna knows people may wonder why she's revealing her bisexuality when she and Chris have a monogamous commitment.

幅主卧室的油画上写着“我爱我们”。迪安娜知道，们可能会好奇，当她和克里斯承诺妻制时，她为什么要暴露自己的双性恋身份。

Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet.

母亲，妻制，讲恋爱。喷泉喷得很高；喷泉撒着野，飘着水沫。

And few men -- even the nicest, finest, and most monogamously faithful and loving -- have such willpower.

而很少有男，即便是最体贴，最优秀，最忠诚拥护妻制的拥有这样的意志力。

So I would define monogamy as a formation of a lasting partnership or a social relationship between mates.

所以我将妻制定义为种持久的伴侣关系或配偶之间的社会关系。

And we were able to find species that had independently evolved monogamy in each of these lineages.

“我们能在其中每个世系中找到独立进化出妻制的物种。”

Things like monogamy, or faith and morality, or questions like, are we going to have kids?

比如妻制，或者是忠诚和道德，或者是些问题，比如说我们将来会要孩子吗？

Another suggestion's based on the observation that male lizards in monogamous relationships tend to be bigger and stronger than other males.

另个想法是基于妻制的雄性蜥蜴比其他的雄性更大、更强壮的观察。