matrimony

matrimony

英 ['mætrɪmənɪ]
　　美 ['mætrɪmoni]

n. 結婚，婚禮；婚姻生活

中文詞源：

matrimony 婚姻

matri-,母親，-mony,名詞後綴，詞源同alimony.比喻用法。

例句：

1. She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.
隻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。

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, 蹂躪瞭她.

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.

4. He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.
他已經擺脫瞭婚姻的枷鎖.

5. It isn't possible that you were so misguided as to think I would propose matrimony? "
你不會糊塗到認為我會向你求婚 吧 ?