婚约

On the morning of the great day the upholsterers were still nailing up hangings, and toward nine at night, just when the lusters were going to be lit, the architect, accompanied by the eager and interested countess, was given his final orders.

萨比娜伯爵夫人要求她女儿的婚约在星期二签订，是为了借此机会，庆祝一下油漆未干的公馆修缮竣工。

Some have even gone as far as professing their love and proposing marriage.

有人甚至走得更远，向他表达爱意和发出婚约。

The flea market was where you sipped green tea with almond kochas, and learned whose daughter had broken off an engagement and run off with her American boyfriend, who used to be Parchami – communist – in Kabul, and who had bought a house with under-the-table money while still on welfare.

跳蚤市场是这样的地方，你可以喝绿茶，吃杏仁饼，听人说谁家的女儿背弃婚约，跟美国人男友私奔了，谁在喀布尔用黑钱买了座房子，却还领救济金。

At present, due to the dissolution of a marriage or divorce after a short return of bride price due to frequent disputes.

摘 要：当前，因婚约解除或是短婚后离婚所致的彩礼返还纠纷经常发生。

A year later,home, the girl next door back to help the bride price, the lifting of the marriage.

一年后，三弟回家，帮邻家的女孩退了聘礼，解除了婚约。

There are children forced into betrothals and royal weddings before they hit puberty, and youths who bear the title of 'Lord' or 'Lady' and all of its inherent responsibilities.

孩子们在她们的青春期到来前被迫签订婚约，嫁与王室。

This com- bines the religious rite with the legal contract.

新娘披着白色的长婚纱，这正是宗教仪式与法律婚约的结合。

The number of years she will spend with him. Lowlanders often forget that there . no such thing as a permanent alliance in the Frostbacks.

当歌声结束的时候，新郎解开了多少个扣子，新娘就会跟他定下为期多少年的婚约。

While the Nair family system lasted, we may assume that the common home of the brothers and mother would not often be such as to permit of a general succession — failing the brothers — of all the sister's children, where there was more than one sister ; and that the first advance to a restricted system of succession would be through the limitation of the right of succession, primo loco , to the children of the eldest sister.

兄弟们现在将不再总是共同的丈夫；一妻多夫的西藏形式将消亡，一个兄弟与兄长寡妇的结婚将首先变成了一个为了承担兄长的家庭首脑位置所必需的继承表演；其次，当儿子们的继承被引进在权利上优先于一个父亲的兄弟时——首先通过兄弟们离开家庭并订立单独婚约——它将变成一种基于习惯法的义务，而这习惯法，由于从男人们的其他婚姻得不到物质利益将并非少见，被发现是令人烦恼的和不便的。

There is, of course, no shortage of historic grand jewellery gestures: Queen Victoria chose a coiling snake ring for her engagement to Albert, while the Duke of Windsor gave Wallis Simpson a huge 19-carat emerald ring inscribed with 'We are ours now' and dated 1936 – the year Wallis's divorce came through.

自然，具有历史意义的珠宝也不在少数：维多利亚女王为她与阿尔伯特的婚约选择了一款卷曲蛇型的戒指，温莎公爵送给华丽斯·辛普森一枚镶有19克拉翡翠的戒指，上面刻着&现在我们属于彼此&，日期为1936年，正是华丽斯离婚的那一年。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。