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词汇 marriage
释义 marriage
noun
uk /ˈmær.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈmer.ɪdʒ/

marriagenoun (TWO PEOPLE)


B1[ C or U ]
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results in this: 婚姻;结婚;婚礼
They had a long and happy marriage.他们的婚姻长久而幸福。
She went to live in another state after the break-up of her marriage.她婚姻破裂后便搬去了另一个州。
She has two daughters by her first marriage.她的第一次婚姻有两个女儿。
the marriage ceremony婚礼
The court decision legalized gay/same-sex marriage (= a marriage between two people of the same sex).
[ C or U ]
a type of relationship between people in which they live as married people but their relationship is not legally accepted :
I believe that marriage is a divine institution and doesn't need legal status to be valid.
He has several wives, but our country does not recognize all of his marriages.
Common-law marriage (= a marriage that is not official but is accepted because the people have lived together for a very long time) is only recognized in a few states.
 marriage of convenience
a marriage in which the partners have married not because they love each other, but in order to get an advantage, such as the right to live in the other partner's country: 基于利害关系的婚姻,权宜婚姻
Marriages of convenience carry the risk of prosecution and even deportation.
They got divorced after only six months of marriage.他们结婚6个月就离婚了。
Their marriage fell apart when she found out about her husband's affair.她发现丈夫有婚外情后,他们的婚姻破裂了。
Sex before marriage is strongly disapproved of in some cultures.
In true Hollywood style , she's had four marriages and three face-lifts.
Their constant arguments were putting a strain on their marriage.他们持续不断的争吵使他们的婚姻关系非常紧张。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
adulteress
affinal
as husband and wifeidiom
be an itemidiom
be shacked upidiom
have an affair
have something going with someoneidiom
hear wedding bellsidiom
hitched
honest
matrimony
monogamist
monogamous
monogamously
ménage à trois
shack
shack up
situationship
something
together

marriagenoun (COMBINATION)


[ C ]
a combination of two or more things: (两个或以上事物的)融合物,结合体
His music is a marriage of jazz, blues, and pop.他的音乐里融合了爵士、布鲁斯以及流行乐的元素。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Connecting and combining
abut
additive
adjoin
affix something to something
agglomerate
connectedly
connecting
converge
convergence
cor
intertwine
interweave
isthmic
jointed
junction
unification
unified
unify
unintegrated
union

marriage | American Dictionary


marriage
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈmær·ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between a man and a woman in which they live as husband and wife, or the official ceremony which results in this:
[ C ]a long and happy marriage

Examples of marriage


marriage
The "successful" governess, it seems, manages her pupils into "successful" betrothals - just like the marriage plot novel.
The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.
Furthermore, earlier marriage reinforces this trend, because graduates will be spending a greater proportion of their childbearing years in marriage.
Officially, ecclesiastical matrimony had thus replaced secular, private, and clandestine marriage.
If there were no sons in the house and the heir was the eldest daughter, the marriage resulted, theoretically, in a mere reversal of roles.
Due recognition must also be given to changes in nuptial fertility and to apparently changing perceptions of the roles of marriage and the family.
The question of succession prompted families engaged in the same occupation to form an association that controlled members' marriages and inheritances.
The land was most likely to be transferred to the eldest son of the first marriage.
Their members' marriage patterns, for example, showed subtle, but visible, differences from those of other social groups.
Thus, the families in the sample are characterized by poverty, relatively large family size, and frequent unstable marriages.
The marriage ceremony itself was perfunctory and, in this instance, the whole process of juba'ing seems to have proceeded smoothly.
Marriage has been secularised and is concluded upon the oral response of the two parties.
Certainly, over a long historical period it might be expected that unrecorded separations would have diminished as a proportion of all marriage breakdowns.
The term used to denote marriage is known to have differed according to region and social group.
What is the nature of the interaction between education and delayed marriage?
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Collocations withmarriage


marriage

These are words often used in combination with marriage.

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advantageous marriage
It was not an especially advantageous marriage and may well have been a love affair.
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broken marriage
Remarriage offers a future for parties suffering from a brokenmarriage.
dissolution of marriage
Finally, historians have discussed the dissolutionofmarriage.
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