matrimony
英 ['mætrɪmənɪ] 美 ['mætrɪmoni]
- n. 结婚，婚礼；婚姻生活
中文词源
matrimony 婚姻
matri-,母亲，-mony,名词后缀，词源同alimony.比喻用法。
英文词源
- matrimony (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French matremoine "matrimony, marriage" and directly from Latin matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nominative mater) "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."
双语例句
- 1. She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.
- 只要她不表露她的激情和情感，她就可以选择自己的婚姻伴侣。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony, he used her body.
- 他在有传宗接代意义的庄严的婚姻关系以外, 蹂躏了她.
来自辞典例句
- 3. She had never experienced the pangs of ragged matrimony.
- 她从来没有体验过穷酸婚姻的痛苦.
来自辞典例句
- 4. He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.
- 他已经摆脱了婚姻的枷锁.
来自辞典例句
- 5. It isn't possible that you were so misguided as to think I would propose matrimony? "
- 你不会糊涂到认为我会向你求婚 吧 ?
来自飘（部分）