1.Like so many wartime marriages, theirs was a wholly predictable failure, albeit one that endured after a fashion for 17 years.
就像众多战时婚姻一样，他们的婚姻尽管勉强维持了17年，却注定一败涂地。
2.But it's worse than that - it's a predictable failure.
但更糟的是，这个失败是可以预知的。
