matrimony

• n. 结婚，婚礼；婚姻生活

matri-,母亲，-mony,名词后缀，词源同alimony.比喻用法。

matrimony (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French matremoine "matrimony, marriage" and directly from Latin matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nominative mater) "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."

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

只要她不表露她的激情和情感，她就可以选择自己的婚姻伴侣。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony, he used her body.

他在有传宗接代意义的庄严的婚姻关系以外, 蹂躏了她.

来自辞典例句

3. She had never experienced the pangs of ragged matrimony.

她从来没有体验过穷酸婚姻的痛苦.

来自辞典例句

4. He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.

他已经摆脱了婚姻的枷锁.

来自辞典例句

5. It isn't possible that you were so misguided as to think I would propose matrimony? "

你不会糊涂到认为我会向你求婚 吧 ?

来自飘（部分）