Little signified those ceremonies to-day, or the happiness or otherwise of the contracting parties.

今天的那些仪式， 或者缔约双方的幸福与否， 都没有什么意义。

Among the barbarous nations who overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the performance of contracts was left for many ages to the faith of the contracting parties.

在侵占罗马帝国西部省份的野蛮民族中， 许多世纪以来， 合同的履行都取决于合同当事人的信仰。

Satisfied that a wedding was in progress there, the gardener did not for a moment dream that one of the contracting parties could be other than the sick Baron.

园丁对那里正在举行的婚礼感到满意，他一刻也没有想到，其中一个签约方可能不是生病的男爵。

I find, on reference to the figures, that a large proportion of these marriages are contracted between parties of very unequal ages, and that the elder of these contracting parties is, in rather more than three-fourths of these instances, the bridegroom.

根据这些数字，我发现这些婚姻中有很大一部分是在年龄非常不相称的双方之间缔结的，而且在这些情况下，超过四分之三的情况下，这些缔约双方中年长的一方是新郎。