赡养费按照法庭判决离婚后的原配偶－－通常为夫妻中收入较多的一方给另一方的供养补助。赡养费亦可付给并未离婚的双方中的一方，如在合法分居时 An allowance for support made under court order to a divorced person by the former spouse, usually the chief provider during the marriage. Alimony may also be granted without a divorce, as between legally separated persons.
为避免受饥寒之苦，夫妻俩不得不双双工作 Both spouses had to take jobs in order to keep the wolf from the door.
并非每一对夫妻都相称。 Every couple is not pair.
许多本来不可能成为夫妻的人都是战争把他们撮合起来的。 Many unlikely pairs of people were tossed together by war.