| This time we look at weddings. It is a time when people swear to be together until "death do us part". This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is called a wedding and the status created is sometimes called wedlock. |
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1. In a Western marriage ceremony the bridegroom wears a suit and the bride a white dress.
2. Julie and John were nineteen when they wed.
3. Wedding vows are solemn promises both partners make to each other.
4. In the process of courtship the man may try to woo the woman by buying her expensive gifts.
5. Most societies practice monogamy, however some allow polygamy where someone can be married to more than one person.
6. A woman's dowry is money and goods which are a gift from the bride's father to the man she marries.
7. It was an arranged marriage, planned by the parents, however the couple found out they got on together very well together.
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8. It was a shotgun marriage. When her father found out she was pregnant he forced her boyfriend to marry her.
9. I have found my soul mate. She is the only one in the world for me.
10. After an engagement of ten years they finally decided it was time to tie the knot.
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| IDIOMS
11. I love you and you love me, isn't it time we got hitched?
12. "They got spliced in Hawaii" is an informal way of saying they got married; like joined or spliced wire, rope or film. | |
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| | | Glossary | | | matrimony (n.) | | 结婚的行为或状态；婚姻 | |
| | | | polygamy (n.) | | 一夫多妻，一妻多夫 | 联想：monogamy |
| | | | splice (v.) | | 【俚语】 结婚 | 联想：slice |
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n.典礼；礼仪；客气 (初中英语单词)
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