When she first came to London, she was newly married and out of work.
她初到倫敦時剛結婚,而且沒有工作。
So, how do you like married life?
那麽,你覺得婚後生活怎麽樣?
5Do not say ‘be married with’ someone or ‘get married with’ someone. Say be married to someone or get married to someone.
不要說 ‘be married with’ someone 或 ‘get married with’ someone. 而要說be married to someone 或get married to someone.
2be married to somethingATTENTIONto give most of your time and attention to a job or activity 專心致志於某事
I was married to my job.
我一心撲在工作上。
Examples from the Corpus
be married to something• She is married to Dave Walden, formerchief of staff to Mayor Lanier.• It wasn't as if she were married to him.• He believed he had never married because he was married to his calling.• She was married to Milton Hayes, an Oceanic Lines purser, in 1929.• Alison had shown enough respectablehorror on discovering that he was married toprove she was a nice girl.• It was like they were married to the Democrats, husband and wife, and nobodyargues, but nobody talks.• As your Grace knows, Alexander was married to your Grace's late lamentedsister, Margaret.
nGRAMMAR: Prepositions with married
You are married to someone:
He is married to an American.
Last year I got married to Tom.
✗Don’t say: He is married with an American. | Last year I got married with Tom.
You use married with when talking about how many children someone has:
Richard is now happily married with two young children.
nCOLLOCATIONS
verbs
be married
She’s married now, and living in London.
get married (=to have a wedding)
Did you know that they are going to get married?
stay married
I cannot stay married to a man I do not love.
be married with children (=to be married and have children)
Kevin is married with four children.
adverbs
happily married (=in a happy relationship with your husband or wife)
I have been happily married for nine years.
unhappily married (=not in a happy relationship with your husband or wife)
They were behaving like an unhappily married old couple.
newly/recently married (=married not long ago)
The newly married couple arrived at their hotel.
nouns
a married man/woman
By 1957 a third of married women were working.
a married couple
Most of their friends are married couples.
married life
Throughout her married life, her husband’s interests had come first.
somebody’s married name (=a woman’s last name, when she has changed it to her husband’s name)
She gave them Pat’s married name and address.
married quarters (=where soldiers live with their wives)
Can a soldier’s wife continue to live in married quarters if her husband leaves her?
More and more couples are choosing to live together rather than get married.
越來越多的情侶選擇同居而不結婚。
separated no longer living with your husband or wife because of problems in your marriage 分居的
I think Joan and Brian are separated now.
我想瓊和布賴恩現在分居了。
divorced no longer married because you have legally ended your marriage 離婚的,離異的
My parents got divorced when I was 10.
我十歲時父母離婚。
divorced men
離婚男人
widowed no longer married because your husband or wife has died 寡居的;鳏居的;喪偶的
He’s a widowed father of two.
他喪偶,有兩個孩子。
husband/wife etc 丈夫/妻子等
husband/wife the man/woman you are married to 丈夫/妻子
My wife’s a teacher.
我妻子是老師。
partner the person you live with and have a sexual relationship with. Partner is often used when people are not married, or when you do not know if they are married. It is also used when talking about same-sexcouples 伴侶〔partner常指未婚同居或是不知道是否結婚的人,也指同性的伴侶〕
He lives with his partner Ruth and their eight-month-old son.
他和伴侶露絲及他們八個月大的兒子一起生活。
fiancé/fiancée the man/woman you are engaged to 未婚夫/未婚妻
The prince announced his intention to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
王子宣布了欲與沃利斯•辛普森夫人——一名離異美國女子結婚的打算。
widow/widower a woman or man whose husband or wife has died 寡婦/鳏夫
Imelda Marcos, the widow of the former president
伊梅爾達•馬科斯,前總統的遺孀
spouse formal your spouse is your husband or wife 配偶
The rule applies to spouses and children of military personnel.
本規定適用於軍職人員的配偶及子女。
nestranged wife/husband formal someone’s estranged husband or wife is one who they do not live with anymore
She is trying to get her sons back from her estranged husband.
someone who is not married 未婚的
bachelor a man who has never been married 未婚男子,單身漢
He’s a confirmed bachelor (=a man who has decided he will never marry).
他是個堅定的獨身主義者。
spinster old-fashioned a woman who has never been married and is no longer young 老處女,老姑娘
The house was owned by an elderly spinster.
房子的主人是位老姑娘。
Examples from the Corpus
married• I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married.• But now she's all married and stuff.• We've been married for 25 years.• There is no way Dona could have left her married life and children behind to sail the seas with piratelover.• After thirty-two years of married life Barbara had no illusions left.• But the scale of these effects, especially for married men, is small.• Is Robertson your marriedname?• Aged 53, married, no children.• And Liz is married to my brother, after all.• Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.• Nickpersonable, Etoneducated, slightly bigboyish looking is 30 and married with two very young children.• Richard is happily married with two young children.• More and more married women were returning to the workplace.
married life• Ironically, during that time, Charles and Diana enjoyed the happiestperiod of their married life.• It was all so different from her own married life.• It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normalmarried life.• We hope that both of you will always enjoy married life, a very long and happy life together.• Our married life has truly begun, and every day it will get better.• Indeed, during their married life he mostly pampered her.• Admittedly they were only nineteen, but surely, he reasoned, there must be more to married life than this?• At the end they look forward to a married life together in a worlddiminished by the events of the play.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERBS➤be, feel已婚;感覺結了婚◇I wouldn't have felt properly married if it hadn't been a church wedding.如果不是在教堂舉行了婚禮,我還不會覺得已真正結了婚。➤get結婚◇When did you get married?你什麼時候結的婚?➤remain維持婚姻ADVERB➤newly, recently新婚的◇The newly married couple left for their honeymoon in Spain.這對新婚夫婦動身到西班牙度蜜月去了。➤previously以前結過婚的▸➤happily婚姻幸福的▸➤unhappily婚姻不幸的▸➤lawfully, legally婚姻合法的▸➤properly正式結了婚的PREPOSITION➤to與⋯結了婚◇She's married to an actor.她嫁給了一位演員。PHRASES➤married with children已婚已育◇All her friends are now married with children.她的所有朋友都已結婚生子。