Whether those others were parents, priests, friends or bureaucrats, their motive was largely the same: they thought they knew what it took to pair people off better than those people knew themselves.
不论这些局外人是父母、牧师、朋友还是官僚,其动机大都一致:他们认为自己比当事人更清楚谁该和谁谈恋爱。