marry
vt. 与...结婚, 娶, 嫁 vi. 结婚
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教材释义与例句
嫁；娶；与……结婚
if you marry someone, you become their husband or wife
He married Bea in 1925.
他在1925年娶了贝亚。
I'm going to ask her to marry me on St Valentine's Day.
我打算在情人节向她求婚。
She married young (= at a young age ) .
她结婚早。
People in higher social classes are more likely to marry late (= when they are older than is usual ) .
社会阶层较高的人士倾向于晚婚。
Sophia had, in a sense, married beneath her (= married someone of a lower social class than her ) .
索菲娅在某种意义上是下嫁了。
释义与例句
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1.
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
不及物Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] "
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2.
To enter into marriage with one another.
不及物Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
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To take as husband or wife.
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及物In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
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To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
及物He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
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To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
及物A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
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To join or connect. See also marry up.
结婚
比喻 不及物There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
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7.
To unite; to join together into a close union.
比喻 及物The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
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To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
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To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
航海 交通
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A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
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From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian marti̇̀ (“bride”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English hīwian.
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