汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 嫁妆
嫁妆 (嫁妝)
dowry
女子出嫁时,从娘家带到丈夫家去的衣被、家具及其他用品。也作嫁装。
jià () zhuāng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

女方提供嫁妆既是一个衡量标准。

One measure is the practice of giving dowries.

自己嫁妆来贴补,引得众人称羡。、。

Oneself trousseau to subsidize, lead to obtain public advocate a person to adore.

琏二奶奶就直接问小姐前太太的嫁妆要小姐注意,还给了小姐当年的嫁妆单子。

The Lian second daughter-in-law directly asks before the young lady the wife's trousseau to want a young lady to placard and return to young lady the trousseau slip in those early annuals.

前太太的嫁妆我全都交给大姐儿了。

The ex- wife's trousseau all of me handed over to elder sister son.

嫁妆箱一个,全新,五折出售,里面有说不完的故事。

For sale, Hope Chest, brand new, half off, long story.

有时交换率牵涉到实际的钱或财产,表现为嫁妆或聘礼,她补充道。

Exchange rates sometimes involved real money or property, in the form of dowries or bride prices, she noted.

奥斯男爵与律师因苏菲的嫁妆问题争执不下,打断了意大利歌手的咏叹调。

Among them is an Italian singer, whose aria is cut short by the baron's wrangling with a lawyer over Sophie's dowry.

第二天早上,女儿们醒来发现她们的长统袜里装满了金子,足够供她们买嫁妆

The next morning when the daughters awoke they found their stockings contained enough gold for them to get married.

近几十年来,男子给与妻子娘家一大笔钱在中国已经成为了一种趋势,就像倒贴的嫁妆一样。

In recent decades it has become a trend in China for a man to give his wife-to-be's family a cash sum, like a reverse dowry.

在繁荣的印度北部地区,如果女子的家人不能拿出足够的嫁妆,她们还会被杀或是毁容。

In prosperous northern Indian states, women whose families have failed to stump up a sufficient dowry still get killed or disfigured.