| 词汇 | marriageable |
| 释义 | marriageable adjective old-fashioneduk /ˈmær.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/ us /ˈmer.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/ suitable for marriage: 适婚的 a wealthy man of marriageable age达到结婚年龄的富有男子 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 Examples of marriageablemarriageable The family with no sons or one whose only sons were still children would view a marriageable age daughter very differently. If they have any children of marriageable age, the household will receive ample attention. Such gossip, if leaked, will certainly jeopardize the social status of the family with knock-on effects on all marriageable youths in their kin group. Such women had to be of marriageable age and either unmarried or widowed. High mortality also played a significant role because many fathers died before their sons reached marriageable age. This was due to the shortage of males at the marriageable ages and was further aggravated by heavy male unemployment at ages 20-34. Table 3 shows the availability of males and females at the marriageable ages according to religion in 1971. In all probability the numbers in the younger age groups will be further augmented by future immigration as they grow to marriageable age. There may have been proportionately more children in 1843 than in 1793, and thus a relatively smaller ' marriageable ' population. It might be, therefore, that the impact on marriageable-age women of economic disadvantage was to delay marriage, whereas poor men might never marry. The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter. Young males and females of marriageable age were not distributed randomly within households either. Marriageable women who choose not to remarry or to live under their male relatives' tutelage also stand outside of this circuit of obligation and authority, of entitlement and obedience. Young men of marriageable age, in particular, had to build up a herd, both for bridewealth (roora) payments and farming purposes. In the past, the slight excess of males at birth was abolished within a few years by higher mortality, so that there was an excess of females of marriageable age. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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