来自《哈佛大学公共课-公正：该如何做是好第12集》

about the telos of marriage.

无法避免
Justice Marshall's opinion considers and rejects the notion

马歇尔法官的意见考量并驳斥了
that the primary purpose of marriage is procreation.

婚姻的主要目的是繁衍这一观点
She points out that there is no requirement

她指出法律并没有要求
that applicants for marriage license, who are heterosexuals,

申请结婚证的异性恋者
attest to their ability or their intention to conceive children.

证明其生育的能力或意愿
Fertility is not a condition of marriage.

生育不是婚姻的条件
People who cannot stir from their deathbed, they marry.

濒死之人也能结婚
So she advances all kinds of arguments,

她提出了许多争论
along the lines that we began last time,

类似我们上次展开的
about the proper and the essential nature,

关于婚姻的本质属性
the telos of marriage, is.

及其目的的讨论