Matrimony
['mætrɪmənɪ] or ['mætrɪmoni]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
(n.) A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
手打:撒迪厄斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Marriage, wedlock, nuptial state.
手打:米格尔
同義詞及反義詞：
[See WEDLOCK]
校對:劳伦斯
解釋/意思:
n. union of husband and wife marriage: state of marriage.—adj. Matrimō′nial relating to derived from marriage.—adj. Matrimō′nially.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
A game for women, in which the unmarried half are trying to find a husband and the married half trying not to be found out by one. Both halves are eminently successful.
整理:温弗雷德
例句/造句/用法:
- I fancy it was the sight of Worcester and me together, so Darby and Joan-like, that first put the good soldier in mind of matrimony. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I did not know before, that I had two daughters on the brink of matrimony. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- You are going to try matrimony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony sacred in the highest degree, and what is most beneficial will be deemed sacred? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But thirty-five has nothing to do with matrimony. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- But, my dear papa, you are no friend to matrimony; and therefore why should you be so anxious to pay your respects to a _bride_? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Had I revealed myself, and suggested the marriage, with the natural dislike of a young man to be forced into matrimony, you might have objected. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I always say this is quite one of the evils of matrimony. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Happily he was not farther from approving matrimony than from foreseeing it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It is in _youth_ that we plant our chief habits and prejudices; it is in youth that we take our party as to profession, pursuits, and matrimony. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Perhaps, said Elinor, thirty-five and seventeen had better not have any thing to do with matrimony together. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- A reg'lar coachman's a sort o' con-nectin' link betwixt singleness and matrimony, and every practicable man knows it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- So I told him he might still address me as an unmarried lady, though if I hadn't been so particular, I'd had good chances of matrimony. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- A struggling barrister to think of matrimony! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
校對:鲁珀特