Love could count for something, but marriages were still essentially,

爱固然很重要可婚礼也是必不可少的
less so for the middle classes than for ordinary people,

较普通民众而言中产阶级办的婚礼少些
but economic relationships.

但经济往来更频繁
That's what they were.

画中的两人就是这样的
They were economic relationships,

经济往来才是他们真正的关系
wrangling over the dowry and that kind of thing.

他们正在为彩礼之类的事而争论
Look at our guy on the left.

看看左边的这个男子
He's working very hard there.

他在那里很认真地工作
This pole that is put up there has a real sense of dividing these.

立在这儿的这根柱子有种把画面分割的感觉
It's like the barriers on my quite arbitrary,

它就像我那里随笔画出的
and not terribly well designed, triangle there.

还算组织有序的三角形似的
Do these people have something in common?

这些人有相同点吗