matrimony

英 [ˈmætrɪməni]

美 [ˈmætrɪmoʊni]

n. 婚配

BNC.33253 / COCA.23355

牛津词典

noun

noun

the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
1. a long and happy marriage
2. God bless this union
Synonym:marriageunionspousal relationshipwedlock

Ah! You have been in a bad school for matrimony, in hill street?
啊！你上过希尔街哪个歪门邪道的婚姻学校吧？
As actually allowing them to be joined in holy matrimony.
比让他们结婚要残忍多了。
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。
My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony.
我俩约会将近一年，都感觉是时候一起迈向神圣的婚姻殿堂了。
Being now in her twenty-first year, Maria Bertram was beginning to think matrimony a duty;
玛丽亚·伯特伦现年二十一岁，开始觉得自己应该结婚了。
On matrimony he had never once said a word.
关于婚姻的事，他从来就没有说过一个字。
I did not know before, that I had two daughters on the brink of matrimony.
我一直不知道我同时有两个女儿都有结婚的希望。
He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.
他已经摆脱了婚姻的枷锁。
Matrimony comes from mater, Latin for mother.
Matrimony也源自于拉丁语中的mater（母亲）一词。
Matrimony basis is the foundation on which marriage relation is established, maintained, developed and dissolved.
（有婚姻关系的双方）分居婚姻基础是婚姻关系建立、续、展、除的基本依据。