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n.嫁妆⁹³;天资⁷复数dowries名词复数dowries
其他参加婚礼夫妻与婚姻婚姻
Noun:
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage女子出嫁时，女方家庭向男方或新婚夫妇赠送一定的陪嫁礼物，这是全世界范围内通行的一项古老习俗。这种陪嫁礼物就是“嫁妆”，在英文中称为dowry。它源自拉丁语dotare，其中的do就是“赠送”的意思，如英语单词donate捐赠。与它同源的还有endow捐赠。
娘家赠送嫁妆的原因，一方面是为新婚夫妇提供一定资助，帮助他们成家立业，另一方面还有比较深厚的社会历史原因。我们知道，古代社会是父权和夫权社会，女性地位低下，嫁入男方后就成了婆家的人，与娘家不再有瓜葛，也不能继承娘家的遗产，所以女性成家后几乎再也无法从娘家获得任何帮助。在这种背景下，娘家向出嫁女儿提供帮助的唯一途径就是结婚时的嫁妆了。嫁妆的丰厚与否，与女儿日后在婆家的地位息息相关。在印度和孟加拉等地方，人们对嫁妆异常看重，甚至经常发生“索奁焚妻”这样的暴行。“索奁焚妻”指的是因为女方家庭拒绝男方的要求，不肯提供更多嫁妆，男方便杀害新婚妻子作为报复的事件，通常采取浇上汽油活活烧死的残忍手段。在印度，这一恶习屡禁不止，每年造成了大量女性的死亡。dowry一词在印度已经违背了“自愿捐赠”的本意，变成了女方家庭的一项沉重负担。
dowry：'daʊərɪ n.嫁妆，天资，亡夫的遗产
endow： ɪn'daʊ; en- vt.赋予，捐赠，天生拥有钱博士dow赠送+ary形容词和名词后缀→结婚时赠送的礼物⇒嫁妆，彩礼
词根dow-给予，捐赠来自古法语，源自拉丁语。它和拉丁词根d-给、don-给予，捐赠、希腊词根do-给最终都源自原始印欧语词根*do-给。联想记忆do做+ wr看作woman女人+ ywhy→ 做女人的，为何不想要嫁妆 ⇒嫁妆GRE红宝书do＋wry不好说, 自己想
来自dower，drawer 抽屉里全是钱，嫁妆；方振宇词汇奥秘dow给予+ry表名词，通常放在一个完整的单词后面→嫁妆近义词 gift礼物grant授予money财产dower嫁妆talent天赋genius天才dowery嫁妆ability能力portion部分present礼物payment支付trousseau嫁妆settlement解决endowmentU捐助奖金…
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用作名词Her father gave her the two books he had written as herdowry.作为她的嫁妆,她父亲将自己写的两本书给了她。
His family hoped that his bride would bring a largedowry.他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆。as in.circumstances
同义词 assets,capital,chances,class,command,degree,footing,income,lifestyle,lot,means,outlook,position,precedence,prestige,property,prospects,prosperity,rank,rating,resources,situation,sphere,standing,state,station,status,substance,timesfinancial status,net worth,way of life,worldly goods
反义词 debt,poorness,povertyas in.dower
同义词 endowment,gift,skill,talent
反义词 inability,incapacity,loss,weaknessas in.heritage
同义词 ancestry,culture,custom,legacy,right,traditionbequest,birthright,convention,endowment,estate,fashion,inheritance,lot,patrimony,portion,shareheirship,heritance
反义词 whole
circumstancesnoun state of affairs in one's life
assets,capitals,chances,classes,commands,degrees,dowries,financial statuses,footings,incomes,lifestyles,lots,means,net worths,outlooks,positions,precedence,prestige,properties,prospects,prosperity,ranks,ratings,resources,situations,spheres,standings,states,stations,statuses,substances,times,way of lifes,worldly goods
dowernoun natural gift
endowment,gift,skill,talent
heritagenoun person's background, tradition
ancestry,bequest,birthright,convention,culture,custom,dowry,endowment,estate,fashion,heirship,heritance,inheritance,legacy,lot,patrimony,portion,right,share,tradition The people of a vanishing atoll might somehow retain their rights even if they migrated en masse to another country, or merged with another state, bringing their entitlements as a sort of dowry.
生活在正在下沉环礁上的人们，可以通过整体移居到另外一个国家来继续享有他们本国的海洋权利，或者以这些权利作为嫁妆和另外一个国合并。 ecocn
Eight years later, perhaps hoping to help her now motherless siblings, Henrietta released her dowry money by marrying a cousin, Charles Howard,14 years her senior.
8年后，母亲也去世了，或许是出于帮助无依无靠的兄弟姐妹，亨丽埃塔什么嫁妆都没要，便嫁给了比她年长14岁的表兄查尔斯•霍华德 Charles Howard。 ecocn
Even though many men are retired and living on a fixed income, they are expected to help support their wives’ extended families, beginning with a dowry of several thousand dollars.
尽管很多男人都已经退休，靠固定的收入过活，他们还要帮助妻子的大家庭。 通常这样的帮助都以几千美元的嫁妆开始。 yeeyan
In a place where there are still adobe houses, and where a dowry may be measured partly in potatoes freeze-dried by nights spent above4,000 metres13,000 feet, this is a transformation.
在这片土地上，至今仍有土坯房屋，嫁妆还以在四千米1.3万英尺高原上夜间冻干的土豆来衡量，而这些建筑的出现，无异于一次转变。 ecocn
When the water recedes, the people will, if they are lucky enough to have any, sell their cattle and their wives’ ornaments, their dowry gold, to rebuild the watercourses and to level the fields.
洪水退去以后，如果人们足够幸运还剩的有些牲畜，妻子的饰品，或是金嫁妆，他们可以卖掉它们来重建河道并铺平土地。 yeeyan |