| 单词 | marriageable |
| 释义 | marriageable adjective old-fashioneduk/ˈmær.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/us/ˈmer.ɪ.dʒə.bəl/suitableformarriage: 适婚的awealthyman of marriageableage达到结婚年龄的富有男子 Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
Examplesofmarriageablemarriageable The family with no sons or one whose only sons were still children would view amarriageableage daughter very differently. From theCambridge English Corpus If they have any children ofmarriageableage, the household will receive ample attention. From theCambridge English Corpus Such gossip, if leaked, will certainly jeopardize the social status of the family with knock-on effects on allmarriageableyouths in their kin group. From theCambridge English Corpus Such women had to be ofmarriageableage and either unmarried or widowed. From theCambridge English Corpus High mortality also played a significant role because many fathers died before their sons reachedmarriageableage. From theCambridge English Corpus This was due to the shortage of males at themarriageableages and was further aggravated by heavy male unemployment at ages 20-34. From theCambridge English Corpus Table 3 shows the availability of males and females at themarriageableages according to religion in 1971. From theCambridge English Corpus In all probability the numbers in the younger age groups will be further augmented by future immigration as they grow tomarriageableage. From theCambridge English Corpus There may have been proportionately more children in 1843 than in 1793, and thus a relatively smaller 'marriageable' population. From theCambridge English Corpus It might be, therefore, that the impact onmarriageable-age women of economic disadvantage was to delay marriage, whereas poor men might never marry. From theCambridge English Corpus The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of amarriageabledaughter. From theCambridge English Corpus Young males and females ofmarriageableage were not distributed randomly within households either. From theCambridge English Corpus Marriageablewomen who choose not to remarry or to live under their male relatives' tutelage also stand outside of this circuit of obligation and authority, of entitlement and obedience. From theCambridge English Corpus Young men ofmarriageableage, in particular, had to build up a herd, both for bridewealth (roora) payments and farming purposes. From theCambridge English Corpus In the past, the slight excess of males at birth was abolished within a few years by higher mortality, so that there was an excess of females ofmarriageableage. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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