Laws on polygamy vary across Africa.

非洲各国关于妻制的法律各不相同。

But also the girls were brought up to expect that polygamy could happen.

但女孩们从小就预料到可能会发生妻制。

The men were also brought up to take in the responsibility to choose polygamy.

这些男性在成长过程中，还被教育要承担选择妻制的责任。

He knew nothing of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy, which is its foundation.

其实他对于摩门教，除了那种构成这个教派基础的" 妻制" 的风俗之外，什么也不知道。

He cultivated a movement for women's liberation, outlawing forced marriages, polygamy and genital mutilation.

他筹划了场女性平权，取缔制性婚姻，妻制与割礼。

Experiment with polygamy: Your consultants will do their utmost to woo you into exclusivity.

你的顾问会尽最大努力让你钟情于他人。

One of the most controversial was polygamy, and it was enough to splinter his followers into other groups.

其中最具争议的是妻制，这足以将他的追随者分裂成其他团体。

And you talk about polygamy versus monogamy, for instance.

例如，您谈论妻制与妻制。

In 1882 Congress made another and more effective effort to stamp out polygamy.

1882 年，国会做出了另项更有效的努力来根除妻制。

He cultivated a movement for women’s liberation, outlawing forced marriages, polygamy and genital mutilation.

他发起了场妇女解，禁止迫婚姻、妻制和切割生殖器官。

Okay, for instance, would you guys be open to polygamy?

卡拉姆：好的，例如，你们愿意接受妻制吗？

Any normal summer, he's drunk on some island where polygamy's legal.

般情况下 他肯定在，某个妻制小岛上喝的酩酊大醉。

He was found guilty of bigamy in America's first big polygamy case in nearly 50 years.

在这场美国近五十年来的第桩妻的大官司当中，他被判犯了重婚罪。

Protests against polygamy were raised in the colony and at the seat of authority three thousand miles away at Washington.

反对妻制的抗议活在殖民地和三千英里外的华盛顿当局所在地举行。

" Polygamy" (polygamy) is the practice of having more than one wife or more than one husband at a time.

“妻制” （polygamy）是同时拥有个妻子或个丈的习俗。

Now, contrary to what some people think, polygamy is not legal in any state or territory of the United States.

现在， 与某些人的想法相反，妻制在美国的任何州或领地都不合法。

A further conclusion obviously presents itself; if polygamy be necessary, woman must be inferior to man, and made for him.

如果妻制是必要的， 那么女人就必须低于男人， 而且是为男人而生的。

The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed.

这时，成年妇女的供应也已渐感不足。没有足够的妇女，妻制的教条就要形同虚设。

I'll marry both John Mayer and Shawn Mendes, and we'll have a nice little family relationship, a nice little polygamy.

我将与约翰·梅尔和肖恩·门德斯结婚，我们将拥有段美好的小家庭关系， 段美好的妻制。

For example, the most common form of polygamy is polygyny or the marriage of one man to two or more women.

例如，最常见的妻制形式是妻制或个男人与两个或更女人结婚。