Old English wedlac "pledge-giving, marriage vow," from wed + -lac, noun suffix meaning "actions or proceedings, practice," attested in about a dozen Old English compounds (feohtlac "warfare"), but this is the only surviving example. Suffix altered by folk etymology through association with lock (n.1). Meaning "condition of being married" is recorded from early 13c.
双语例句
1. The Fawleys were not made for wedlock.
范立家的人就跟结婚没有缘.
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2. The court filiated the child born out of wedlock.
法院收养了这个非婚生孩子.
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3. So, that pedologist tells Russia , agricultural herd should be united in wedlock.
所以, 苏联那个土壤学家讲, 农林牧要结合.
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4. The same is true of restrictions on out of wedlock childbirth.
同样的,对非婚生子女的分娩限制也是如此.
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5. They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock.