• n. 結婚，婚禮；婚姻生活

matri-,母親，-mony,名詞后綴，詞源同alimony.比喻用法。

matrimony (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French matremoine "matrimony, marriage" and directly from Latin matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nominative mater) "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."

1. She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.

只要她不表露她的激情和情感，她就可以選擇自己的婚姻伴侶。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony, he used her body.

他在有傳宗接代意義的莊嚴的婚姻關系以外, 蹂躪了她.

來自辭典例句

3. She had never experienced the pangs of ragged matrimony.

她從來沒有體驗過窮酸婚姻的痛苦.

來自辭典例句

4. He had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony.

他已經擺脫了婚姻的枷鎖.

來自辭典例句

5. It isn't possible that you were so misguided as to think I would propose matrimony? "

你不會糊涂到認為我會向你求婚 吧 ?

來自飄（部分）