5.5. На русский язык


Задание:    Переведите на русский язык.





According to the statistics, Russians get married earlier than Americans.   Many Russian women get married when they are 18 or 19.   Men are a little older or the same age.   Of course, after a few years many of them get divorced.  

In the United States people get married much later.   Both men and women first want to graduate from college and get a professional job.   Only after that they feel that they are ready to get start a family.   The result? 50% get divorced within the first seven years after the wedding.  

What does it mean? Is it better to get married early or late in one’s life? What does it take for people to stay together for 50 years.   Such couple exist and are much admired and envied in both countries.   So what is it? Luck? An ability to love? An ability to compromise? Many people keep asking whether there is a there a recipe for happiness.   Is there?