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。 lfx8.com
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. ECONOMIST: Titled English writers
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.