Eventually Esteban persuaded her to accept an offer of marriage.
最终埃斯特班说服她接受了求婚。
Then again, marriage does offer legal protections that are still important.
不过，婚姻能提供一些依然重要的法律保护。
Eight other states offer civil unions that are legally equivalent to marriage.
还有八个州也向居民联合会提议了婚姻面前应该人人平等。
Several countries,mostly in Europe, offer different levels of marriage rights to same-sex couples.
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To offer marriage reflects the search for legitimisation of homosexual unions but there are other and better paths to the same end.
Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.
Alice herself, well played by the grave and spectrally pallid Mia Wasikowska, is no child but a stubborn young lady, scorning an offer of marriage in the overworld and descending, instead, to the subterranean.