betrothal

noun

1. 婚约；订婚
   an agreement to marry sb

1. 婚约；订婚
   A betrothal is an agreement to be married.

1. The betrothal was announced early in the year and the wedding will be held at the end.
   年初下定，年底迎娶。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. This time, his mother introduced a Beijing girl, green text, and specially arranged for them a betrothal ceremony at sea tourism.
   这次，母亲又为他介绍了一个北京姑娘青文，并特意为他们安排了一次海上旅游订婚仪式。
6. 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。
7. Hungary: The couple exchange betrothal rings.
   匈牙利：新郎新娘交换订婚时戴的戒指。
8. For certain souls do not some thoughts and actions, prompted by love, amount to solemn betrothal?
   爱所驱使的一些思想和行为，对于某些人来说不就等于神圣的婚约吗？
9. The Cultural Dimension of Betrothal Gifts among the Minority Peoples of Yunnan
   试析云南少数民族婚俗聘礼的文化内涵
10. An invasion would not look well following a betrothal.
    订婚之后就大举侵入看起来不大好吧。
11. Their betrothal took place with great pomp and rejoicings.
    他们举行了盛大而又欢乐的订婚仪式。
12. According to the laws of the Eldar this betrothal was bound them to stand for one year at least, and it often stood for longer.
    根据埃尔达精灵的法律，由订婚到正式成婚至少需要一年，而实际生活中的间隔往往更长。
13. He had become urgent in his entreaties that the betrothal might take place before his departure.
    他急切地请求要在他走之前就订婚。
14. After betrothal it was the part of the betrothed to appoint the time of their wedding, when at least one year had passed.
    婚约订立一年之后，订婚的男女就可以决定他们成婚的日期了。
15. It shall always remain an emblem of our betrothal.
    永为订盟之物。
16. A ring given and worn as a sign of betrothal.
    给予和佩带作为订婚标志的戒指。
17. Conventionally, the ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal.
    来说，男方会在向女方求婚或者女方答应求婚后将戒指礼物在订婚仪式上送给女方。
18. 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；
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. THERE WAS NO formal betrothal and no announcement was made of the engagement of Bolkonsky and Natasha; Prince Andrey insisted upon that.
    没有举行订婚礼，博尔孔斯基和娜塔莎订婚的事亦未向任何人宣布，安德烈公爵坚持这样做。
22. Especially in the case of economic constraints, so high "betrothal gift" shouldn't be short of, such marriage has changed.
    特别是在经济拮据的时候，还非要昂贵的彩礼，这样的婚姻走了味。
23. Swedish wives wear three wedding rings: for betrothal, for marriage, and for motherhood.
    瑞典的妻子们都戴3枚结婚戒指：订婚的、结婚的和已做母亲的。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. It should be said that betrothal and betrothal gifts have never been a hot research in the field of Marriage Law, but it is indeed a major blind spot in the legislation.
    应该说，婚约和彩礼从来不是婚姻法领域研究的热点，但它确实是立法的一大盲点。
27. 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。
28. Betrothal gift is a traditional folk customs of our country, which experienced a long history of evolution.
    彩礼是我国传统的民间风俗，历经了长久的历史演变。
29. The moment, although laws in china does not include adjustments to engagement and betrothal gifts, but engagement and a man giving betrothal gifts to a woman when they get engaged are prevalent in folk.
    当下，虽然我国法律没有将婚约和彩礼纳入调整范围，但是订婚和给付彩礼在我国民间却盛行。
30. Since our country abolished "Six Laws", the betrothal would disappear in our legal norms.
    我国自从废除中华民国六法全书之后，婚约就从我国法律规范中消失。

noun

1. the act of becoming betrothed or engaged

   Synonym:    espousal

2. a mutual promise to marry

   Synonym:    trothengagement