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
- Until now, in some areas unmarried men and women need to give betrothal gift before marriage.
直到现在，部分地区未婚男女在缔结婚姻之前仍要给付彩礼。 - Betrothal marriage is the legal marriage reflected and recorded in The Book of Songs and The Book of Rites.
聘婚是周人的合法婚姻。这在《诗经》和《礼记》中均有反映和记载。 - 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； - 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。 - Eug é nie is to be married in a week, and in three days there is to be a grand feast, a betrothal festival.
欧热妮在一星期内要结婚了，三天之后，就要有一场盛大的宴会，一个订婚宴会。 - 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。 - In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged.
第二天，进行了第一轮例行的订婚互访。 - But Tess's desire seemed to be for a perpetual betrothal in which everything should remain as it was then.
苔丝的愿望似乎是要永远保持一种订婚的状态，要让一切都和现在一样维持不动。 - All the church bells rung, and the heralds rode about the town proclaiming the betrothal.
教堂的钟都响起来了，传令人骑着马在街上宣布订婚的喜讯。 - Since then I have named the piece in D flat major as the Betrothal é tude, and look on myself as a matchmaker.
从那时起我就将这一降D大调的作品命名为婚约练习曲，并将自己看作是一个媒人。