英语释义

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

片语

bronze dowry媵器

Red dowry红妆

Love Dowry爱情定金

dowry contract婚前财产公证

Lace Dowry书名

a dowry嫁妆

dot点，圆点；嫁妆

talent才能；天才；天资

endowment捐赠；捐助；捐款；天资

Indirect Dowry间接嫁妆

Death Dowry米香

e Dowry恋爱订金

英汉例句

• yes, a handsome dowry is something the fus surely expected: a nice sum of silver, a few rolls of silk, and perhaps a cow or two.

  当然，付家会期待一份漂亮的嫁妆，包括一套好银器，几匹绸缎，或者再加上一两头牛。

• yet in prosperous northern indian states, far from commanding a bride-price, women whose families have failed to stump up a sufficient dowry still get killed and disfigured.

  然而，在经济繁荣的印度北部地区，不要说掌控新娘的价格，没有嫁妆没人要，没有足够的嫁妆，女子甚至会被杀或是毁容。

• in that area, women’s dowry is more than a symbol of wealth, it is also a symbol of power.

  在那个地区，妇女的嫁妆不仅仅是财富的象征，还是权利的象征。

• when the water recedes, the people will, if they are lucky enough to have any, sell their cattle and their wives’ ornaments, their dowry gold, to rebuild the watercourses and to level the fields.

  洪水退去以后，如果人们足够幸运还剩的有些牲畜，妻子的饰品，或是金嫁妆，他们可以卖掉它们来重建河道并铺平土地。

• and he thought that if i had college debt — a negative dowry — no one would want to marry me.

  他还觉得如果我因为上大学而欠了债，那就是一笔价值为负的嫁妆，那样的话就没人愿意娶我了。

• dowry allowathb of khartoum, sudan, submitted a comment in arabic on the topic 「if you could say one thing to the world, what would it be?」 which came out in english as

  嫁妆喀土穆，苏丹，allowathb提交了一项关于这一专题的评论阿拉伯语「如果你能说的是一回事走向世界，那会是什么？」

• it's rumored that king philip iv of spain purchased the jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter, margaret teresa, in 1664.

  传说，西班牙国王菲利普四世曾于1664年买下这颗鉆石，并把它作为女儿玛格丽特·特蕾莎的嫁妆。

• now the europeans will try to woo the beautiful bride and her dowry of hydrocarbons back from beijing.

  现在，欧洲人将试着去讨好这位漂亮的新娘与她从北京带回的嫁妆——碳氢化合物。

• indeed, africa’s leaders still like to think of their continent as a gorgeous bride, with a glittering dowry of oil and minerals, to be courted by a swooning world.

  的确，非洲领导者们仍把自己的大陆看作是一位美丽的新娘，拥有着原油与矿产资源的闪烁嫁妆，而且会招致一个狂喜的世界去追求。

• even though many men are retired and living on a fixed income, they are expected to help support their wives’ extended families, beginning with a dowry of several thousand dollars.

  尽管很多男人都已经退休，靠固定的收入过活，他们还要帮助妻子的大家庭。通常这样的帮助都以几千美元的嫁妆开始。

• in a place where there are still adobe houses, and where a dowry may be measured partly in potatoes freeze-dried by nights spent above 4,000 metres (13,000 feet), this is a transformation.

  在这片土地上，至今仍有土坯房屋，嫁妆还以在四千米（1.3万英尺）高原上夜间冻干的土豆来衡量，而这些建筑的出现，无异于一次转变。

• some men agreed but most did not; they demanded sweeteners in the form of extra dowry payments from the authorities.

  有的男性赞同这种说法，但大多数不同意；他们要求额外嫁妆或官方付钱作为补偿。

• poorer families can either get a dowry or maybe even marry into a family of higher social standing.

  穷的家庭能得到嫁妆，或者甚至可能嫁入一个有较高社会地位的家庭。

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