betrothal
英 [bɪˈtrəʊðl]
美 [bɪˈtroʊðl]
n. 婚约; 订婚
复数:betrothals
BNC.26973 / COCA.27915
牛津词典
noun
- 婚约;订婚
an agreement to marry sb
柯林斯词典
- 婚约;订婚
Abetrothalis an agreement to be married.
英英释义
noun
- the act of becoming betrothed or engaged
- a mutual promise to marry
双语例句
- The moment, although laws in china does not include adjustments to engagement and betrothal gifts, but engagement and a man giving betrothal gifts to a woman when they get engaged are prevalent in folk.
当下,虽然我国法律没有将婚约和彩礼纳入调整范围,但是订婚和给付彩礼在我国民间却盛行。 - This time, his mother introduced a Beijing girl, green text, and specially arranged for them a betrothal ceremony at sea tourism.
这次,母亲又为他介绍了一个北京姑娘青文,并特意为他们安排了一次海上旅游订婚仪式。 - Hungary: The couple exchange betrothal rings.
匈牙利:新郎新娘交换订婚时戴的戒指。 - The betrothal was announced early in the year and the wedding will be held at the end.
年初下定,年底迎娶。 - According to the laws of the Eldar this betrothal was bound them to stand for one year at least, and it often stood for longer.
根据埃尔达精灵的法律,由订婚到正式成婚至少需要一年,而实际生活中的间隔往往更长。 - Although scholars have different viewpoints concerning this issue, all of them share the idea that dowry and betrothal gifts are an important factor in building marriage relationship between the wife's family and the husband's family.
尽管学者对嫁妆与聘礼的看法差异很大,但他们还是站在一个共同的基点之上,即二者在给出妻子集团和接受妻子集团之间的姻亲关系的建立上是一个重要的因素。 - Second, the focus marriage culture is put upon the quantity of betrothal gifts and whether or not being well matched in social and economic status, while in imperial matrimony culture politics, diplomacy and military affairs are taken into account;
二是婚姻文化比较重视聘财的多寡和门当户对,而和亲文化则更多考虑政治、外交及军事因素; - Since our country abolished "Six Laws", the betrothal would disappear in our legal norms.
我国自从废除中华民国六法全书之后,婚约就从我国法律规范中消失。 - Yet because of the objection of the imperial families, he had to select a girl from an ordinary family and provide her with many betrothal gifts.
然而,由于皇室家庭的反对,他不得不从一个普通的家庭选一个女人给他大量的聘礼。 - Betrothal gift is a traditional folk customs of our country, which experienced a long history of evolution.
彩礼是我国传统的民间风俗,历经了长久的历史演变。