| 词汇 | bridal |
| 释义 | bridal adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈbraɪ.dəl/ us /ˈbraɪ.dəl/ relating or belonging to a woman about to be married, or relating to a marriage ceremony: bridal gown She spent the afternoon trying on bridal gowns for her wedding. bridal party The members of the bridal party posed for photographs. bridal shower mainly USShe planned to throw a bridal shower for her sister. bridal suite We stayed in the hotel's bridal suite (= the rooms for recently married people).我们住在旅店的新婚套房。 The magazine had a section on bridal wear (= the clothes that a woman wears at her marriage).这本杂志有一栏专讲新娘礼服。 Compare nuptialformal Weddings altar always a bridesmaid, never the brideidiom arranged marriage attendant bachelor party dower dowry elope elopement flower girl officiant plight pop the questionidiom postnuptial prenuptial wedding bells wedding breakfast wedding dress wedding gown wedding night bridal | American Dictionarybridal adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈbrɑɪ·dəl/ of a woman about to be married, or of a wedding: a bridal gown Examples of bridalbridal He scoffs at the effrontery of the bridal party, whose members put up a formidable show of might, as if they were military guards. The boundless deserts will be the bridal couch, above us the stars will shine with a clearer radiance. Let not the bridegroom hate the bridal chamber which he has always loved. If it were done we could begin to ask which circumstances lead to parental control and which to bridal autonomy. Indeed, the bridal metaphor represented the unifying status of a woman. During the late 1940s, the relative frequency of bridal pregnancies increased again but a pattern distinctly different from the pre-war situation emerged. He told me how his father had taken part twice in bridal abductions. Bridal lamentations were performed for three days before the bride's departure in marriage. Cool valleys and green meadows will be our bridal couch above us the stars will shine with a clearer radiance. Bridal lamentations never refer to an inauspicious event such as qiangqin, but provide a wealth of information about feminine codes of propriety. Crowds of people came to watch and enjoy the spectacle of the bridal party marching off with the bride. When he cut the cords of her trousers, this was the signal for the 'bridal party' to come to his aid in seizing the bride. Bridal pregnancies at ages 21-25 years remained at relatively low levels, oscillating around 10-12% of all brides. The scene is composed as a precise network of actions and the reaction between the bridal couple and guests, as well as in relation to the spectators. The decline in pre-marital or bridal pregnancies, for example, suggests that unmarried motherhood and de facto marriage are gaining acceptance as modes suited to the rearing of children. 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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