mar·ry /ˈmæri/ ●●● S1 W2 verb (married, marrying) 1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]MARRY if you marry someone, you become their husband or wife 结婚;娶;嫁 → married He married Bea in 1925. 他在1925年娶了贝亚。
I’m going to ask her to marry me on St Valentine’s Day. 我打算在情人节向她求婚。
She married young (=at a young age). 她结婚早。
People in higher social classes are more likely to marry late (=when they are older than is usual). 社会阶层较高的人士倾向于晚婚。
Sophia had, in a sense, married beneath her (=married someone of a lower social class than her). 索菲娅在某种意义上是下嫁了。
RegisterIn everyday English, rather than saying that two people marry, people usually say that they get married. 在日常英语中,人们一般说两人get married,而不说marry
My parents got married in 1986. 我父母是1986年结婚的。
n Marry is a reciprocal verb. This type of verb is used when saying that two or more people do something that involves both or all of them. It does not need to have an object: Their parents did not want them to marry.
In this sentence, marry is intransitive and does not have an object. You can also say: His parents did not want them to marry each other.
His parents did not want him to marry her.
In these sentences, marry is transitive. 2 [transitiveT]MARRY to perform the ceremony at which two people get married 为…主持婚礼 The priest who married us was really nice. 为我们主持婚礼的那个牧师非常和蔼。
3 [transitiveT]MARRY to find a husband or wife for one of your children 把〔女儿〕嫁给;给〔儿子〕娶亲marry somebody to somebody She was determined to marry all of her daughters to rich men. 她决意把她的女儿都嫁给有钱人。
4 [transitiveT] (also marry up) formalMIX to combine two different ideas, designs, tastes etc together 将〔两个不同的想法、设计、品位等〕结合在一起marry something with/to something The building’s design marries a traditional style with modern materials. 大楼的设计把传统风格和现代材料结合在一起。
marry something and something He writes fiction that marries up realism and the supernatural. 他的小说把现实主义和超自然力结合在一起。
5 not the marrying kind MARRYnot the type of person who wants to get married 不是那种想结婚的人 I’m just not the marrying kind. 我就不是那种想结婚的人。
6 marry into something phrasal verbphr v MARRYto join a family or social group by marrying someone who belongs to it 通过婚姻而进入〔配偶所属的家庭或社会团体〕 She married into a very wealthy family. 她嫁入了一个非常富有的人家。
marry into • The kind of family she's married into.• It's not as easy as it looks, marrying into a fortune.• Instead of marrying into comfort, Rose joined the Domimcans as a tertiary.• Three of his daughters by Elizabeth married into families holding the earldoms of Suffolk, Lincoln, and Rutland.• I have not inherited, married into or otherwise acquired millions of dollars.• Claricia Scotti had married into the Contis of Segni, small landowners in the Anagni region to the south-east of Rome.• But Aye was a commoner and could not become pharaoh without marrying into the royal family.• When Kerensa marries into the wealthy St. 7 marry somebody ↔ off phrasal verbphr v MARRYto find a husband or wife for someone – used to show disapproval 为〔某人〕寻得配偶〔含贬义〕 to They married her off to the first young man who came along. 一有个年轻人出现,他们就把她嫁掉了。
marry off• In the time it takes to get the better of this slope, you could raise a family and marry them off.• Over coffee and a home-baked cake they told me of their plans to marry her off.• Throughout his career as a bachelor priest, people had tried to marry him off.• Old law-givers said that the father of a menstruating girl should marry her off immediately.• Our married life was off to an adventurous start.• Charles planned to marry her off to this man. marry to• Charles planned to marry her off to this man.