matrimony
英 ['m?tr?m?n?]
美['m?tr?moni]
- n. 結婚，婚禮；婚姻生活
IELTS暢通詞匯
中文詞源
matrimony 婚姻
matri-,母親，-mony,名詞后綴，詞源同alimony.比喻用法。
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 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，她就可以選擇自己的婚姻伴侶。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony, he used her body.
- 他在有傳宗接代意義的莊嚴的婚姻關系以外, 蹂躪了她.
來自辭典例句
- 3. She had never experienced the pangs of ragged matrimony.
- 她從來沒有體驗過窮酸婚姻的痛苦.
來自辭典例句
- 4. He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.
- 他已經擺脫了婚姻的枷鎖.
來自辭典例句
- 5. It isn't possible that you were so misguided as to think I would propose matrimony? "
- 你不會糊涂到認為我會向你求婚 吧 ?
來自飄（部分）