marriageable

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈmær.ɪ.dʒə.bəl]
• 美式音标 [ˈmer.ɪ.dʒə.bəl]
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基本解释

• adj.适合结婚的；适婚年龄的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Recent surveys have shown over and over that marriageable females rank housing and a car as the most desirable assets a potential husband can bring to a marriage.
  最近的调查一次又一次的表明，适婚女子视房子和车子为与之步入婚姻殿堂的未来丈夫应当具备的最理想的资产。
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• What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
  既然作为一个“正人君子”，向她隐瞒自己的过去是他的义务，而作为已到婚龄的姑娘，她的义务却是把过去的历史向他袒露，那么，两个人又怎能真正相互了解呢？
• There are dozens of single men in Banzhushan village, perched high on a remote mountain peak in central Hunan province – and not one unattached woman of marriageable age.
  盘踞在湖南省中部的遥远山峰上的板竹山村有很多的单身汉——同时没有一个适婚年龄的未婚的女性。

权威例句

• Once she became of marriageable age, her father sought to secure her a sound financial match.
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• Touring her district, she finds people anxiously asking her if she knows of any marriageable girls.
  ECONOMIST: A shortage of girls will haunt India for decades
• The popular understanding was that the only reason for a marriageable woman to take a job was to find a husband.
  NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs

词组短语

短语

• marriageable age 结婚年龄
• marriageable population 适婚人口
• marriageable licence 结婚登记证
• marriageable pubescent 妙龄的
• Marriageable men 婚龄男子

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• suitable for marriage

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe someone as marriageable, you mean that they are suitable for marriage, especially that they are the right age to marry.