wedlock
英 [ˈwedlɒk]
美 [ˈwedlɑːk]
n. 婚姻; 已婚状态
复数：wedlocks
BNC.32861 / COCA.17039
同义词辨析
weddingmarriagewedlock【导航词义：结婚】
weddingn. 结婚庆典，婚礼
〔辨析〕
普通用词，指结婚的仪式以及相关的婚庆活动，尤指包含宗教仪式的婚礼。
〔例证〕
They decided to delay their wedding until August.
他们决定把婚礼推迟到8月。
It will be a small church wedding.
那将是一次小型的教堂式婚礼。
A lot of streets are flagged to celebrate the royal wedding.
许多大街上挂起了旗子以庆祝皇室婚礼。
他们决定把婚礼推迟到8月。
It will be a small church wedding.
那将是一次小型的教堂式婚礼。
A lot of streets are flagged to celebrate the royal wedding.
许多大街上挂起了旗子以庆祝皇室婚礼。
marriagen. 婚姻；婚礼
〔辨析〕
主要指婚姻关系及已婚状态，也可指结婚仪式。
〔例证〕
Marriage is not something to be undertaken lightly.
婚姻大事不可掉以轻心。
Their marriage finally fell apart.
他们的婚姻最终破裂了。
Her third marriage was held in St John's Church.
她的第三次婚礼是在圣约翰教堂举行的。
婚姻大事不可掉以轻心。
Their marriage finally fell apart.
他们的婚姻最终破裂了。
Her third marriage was held in St John's Church.
她的第三次婚礼是在圣约翰教堂举行的。
wedlockn. 〈旧〉已婚状态
〔辨析〕
强调已经结婚的状态。
〔例证〕
He was born in/out of wedlock.
他是婚生子/非婚生子。
Wedlock is a padlock.
婚姻是一种枷锁。
他是婚生子/非婚生子。
Wedlock is a padlock.
婚姻是一种枷锁。
牛津词典
noun
- 婚姻；已婚状态
the state of being married- children born in/out of wedlock (= whose parents are/are not married)
婚生 / 非婚生子女
- children born in/out of wedlock (= whose parents are/are not married)
柯林斯词典
- 已婚（状态）
Wedlockis the state of being married. - （指孩子）婚生的/非婚生的
If a baby is bornin wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is bornout of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
英英释义
noun
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a long and happy marriage
- God bless this union
双语例句
- It went without saying that her aunt would immediately disown her if she fell pregnant out of wedlock.
不用说，她如果未婚怀孕，她姨妈就会立刻否认和她的关系的。 - Last August, 100 couples entered into wedlock at the Grape festival inXinjiang's Turpan city.
八月份，100对新人在新疆吐鲁番市的葡萄节上举行了婚礼。 - Your deeply religious born-again Christian mother wants a test-tube grandbaby born out of wedlock?
你那虔信基督再生的母亲，会想要一个非婚生的试管婴儿当她的孙子？ - Children born out of wedlock enjoy the same right of inheritance as children born in lawful wedlock.
非婚生子女享有与婚生子女同等的继承权。 - You have a child out of wedlock.
你有一个非婚生子。 - Planned parenthood in wedlock by the use of contraceptive devices cannot constitutionally be forbidden.
婚姻生活中使用避孕措施进行计划生育不应在宪法上受到禁止。 - There is a strong correlation between the rate of birth and the number of babies born out of wedlock.
出生率和非婚生孩子之间存在很强的相关性。 - Some people often crouch to be united in wedlock together to do with ran, actually such most injure knee.
有的人经常把蹲起和跑步结合在一起做，其实这样最伤膝盖。 - This woman is a single welfare mother with two kids out of wedlock.
她只是一个有两个孩子靠救济金生活的女人。 - As Alain Enthoven of Stanford University puts it, this gives new meaning to the word "wedlock".
照斯坦福大学教授阿莱恩。恩索文所言：“已婚”可真的成了“倚婚”了。