dowry

英 [ˈdaʊri]

美 [ˈdaʊri]

n.  (新娘的)嫁妆，陪嫁; (新郎给新娘家的)彩礼，财礼

复数：dowries　

GRETEM8法律

BNC.15383 / COCA.17661

牛津词典

noun

• （新娘的）嫁妆，陪嫁
  money and/or property that, in some societies, a wife or her family must pay to her husband when they get married
• （新郎给新娘家的）彩礼，财礼
  money and/or property that, in some societies, a husband must pay to his wife's family when they get married

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 嫁妆;陪嫁
  A woman'sdowryis the money and goods which, in some cultures, her family gives to the man that she marries.
  1. The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store.
     她的嫁妆钱都投到了母亲的铺子里。

英英释义

noun

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  Synonym:dowerydowerportion

双语例句

• She promises, as her dowry, one half of the western empire.
  她许诺，将以帝国的一半，作为她的嫁妆。
• Bringing bad harvest and drought as my dowry.
  把歉收和干旱作为嫁妆带过来。
• How could I utter for shame that I keep for my dowry this poverty.
  我又怎能抱愧地说我的妆奁就是贫穷。
• In societies where the groom had to pay for his bride, the dowry served as a return gift.
  在新郎必须想新娘的佳人支付金钱以迎娶新娘的社会里，嫁妆就起着回赠礼物的作用。
• Suspicion, discontent, and strife, come in for dowry with a wife& Robert Herrick, poet.
  怀疑、不满和冲突作为嫁妆，随老婆一起到来&罗伯特。赫利克，诗人。
• The dowry was the wife's right to receive a tenth of all her husband's property.
  妻子的嫁妆使她有权获得其丈夫十分之一的财物。
• The dowry of my wife was very little in that age.
  那个年代，我妻子的嫁妆很少。
• Usually the bride's dowry shall be sent to the bridegroom's family by the day before the wedding day.
  婚礼进行前一天，新娘的嫁妆要被送到新郎家。
• The cost of the wedding can be viewed as an outgrowth of the dowry custom.
  婚礼的费用可被看作是嫁妆习俗的产物。
• She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
  她有黄金和珍珠做奁资，不过她的黄金在她的头上，珍珠在她的口中。