Laws on polygamy vary across Africa.

非洲各国关于妻制的法律各不相同。

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，也不知道。

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。

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妻的大官司当中，他被判犯了重婚罪。

Rachid Ghannouchi, Nahda's leader, has attacked Tunisia's liberal code of individual rights and its prohibition of polygamy.

那达党的领导人理查德.甘奴赤已经对突尼斯人民的个人权利自由和妻的禁令进行了次抨击。

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。

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。

Smith said God gave permission for Mormons to have more than one wife. This was polygamy. And it was opposed by almost all people.

史密斯说上帝允许摩门教徒拥有不止名妻子，这是妻制，几乎所有人都对此表示反对。

And he maintains that arguments which lean on tradition alone are inadequate, for the same reason that tradition cannot, nowadays, justify polygamy or footbinding.

他断言，在当今社会，人们无法以传统作为实行妻制或是裹小脚的理由，同理，那些仅仅靠传统为论据是论证是站不住脚的。

That is mostly thanks to Habib Bourguiba, the founding father of the modern Tunisian state, who outlawed polygamy, granted women equal divorce rights and legalised abortion.

亏了哈比伯.布尔吉巴，现代突尼斯的创建人，他取消了妻制，承认妇女平等的离婚权以及堕胎合法化。

Mark was still waiting. Then he gave up and mumbled the words I was supposed to say, that he didn't understand fully, but that he knew polygamy was a principle from God.

马克还在等我回答。最后他放弃了，咕哝着说了我该说的话，说他也不能完全理解，但他知道妻是上帝的原则。

" Many women struggle with their faith after they learn about polygamy, " he said. " My mother did. I don't think she's ever understood it" . " I've never understood it, either, " I said.

" 如果这让他们不开心怎办？" 我想我明白他的意思，但我等着他解释。 " 很女性在了解了妻制之后，就与自己的信仰作斗争，" 他说，" 我母亲就是这样。我认为她永远都不会理解这点。" " 我也从来没有理解过。" 我说。