在繁荣的印度北部地区，如果女子的家人不能拿出足够的嫁妆，她们还会被杀或是毁容。
In prosperous northern Indian states, women whose families have failed to stump up a sufficient dowry still get killed or disfigured.
赛赛曼先生鼓励她为她的小朋友准备好一份美丽的嫁妆。
Mr. Sesemann encouraged her to get together a good outfit for her little friend.
我想知道，难道嫁妆取决于吨位吗？
我只需要给他存嫁妆钱了，这就比较好办了。
女方提供嫁妆既是一个衡量标准。
父母无法支付女儿们的嫁妆。
我还要给你买嫁妆。
女孩遭歧视主要是因为嫁妆习惯和遗产惯例都有利于男性。
Girls are prejudiced against largely because of the dowry system and inheritance practices tilted in favour of men.
嫁妆箱一个，全新，五折出售，里面有说不完的故事。
许多家庭常常因筹备婚礼和准备丰厚嫁妆而负债累累。
Families often go into debt arranging marriages and paying elaborate dowries.
在那个地区，妇女的嫁妆不仅仅是财富的象征，还是权利的象征。
In that area, women's dowry is more than a symbol of wealth, it is also a symbol of power.
穷的家庭能得到嫁妆，或者甚至可能嫁入一个有较高社会地位的家庭。
Poorer families can either get a dowry or maybe even marry into a family of higher social standing.
无论是富裕还是贫穷，在城市还是农村，几乎没人想提供嫁妆。
Almost no one, rich or poor, urban or rural, dreams of dispensing with these.
要是她看到达西先生对她的爱有这样的一半，她就要办嫁妆了。
Could she have seen half as much love in Mr. Darcy for herself, she would have ordered her wedding clothes.
作为嫁妆的一部分，一个女人会做几双鞋证明她的女红手艺跟小脚一样优秀。
As part of her dowry, a woman would make several pairs of shoes as proof of her needlework ability, as well as her small feet.
在紧随雨季而来的婚礼季节中，许多闪亮饰品都会被' l造购来作为嫁妆。
The wedding season, which comes after the monsoon, is just around the corner. Lots of shiny things will be expected as part of the dowry.
现在不一样了，我女儿也长大了，工作了，我只用给她把嫁妆准备好就行了。
But now my daughter's grown and working. I only need to save up for the dowry, which is manageable.
有时交换率牵涉到实际的钱或财产，表现为嫁妆或聘礼，她补充道。
Exchange rates sometimes involved real money or property, in the form of dowries or bride prices, she noted.
他从裁缝店和农场挣的钱使他可以购买家畜，为自己的女儿们买嫁妆。
The money he earned from tailoring, and crop farming allowed him to buy livestock, necessary for the dowries of his daughters.
这些水井变成了社会地位的象征，甚至可以作为许多家庭女儿的嫁妆。
The wells become status symbols, included by many families in their daughters' dowries.
现在，欧洲人将试着去讨好这位漂亮的新娘与她从北京带回的嫁妆——碳氢化合物。
Now the Europeans will try to woo the beautiful bride and her dowry of hydrocarbons back from Beijing.
有的男性赞同这种说法，但大多数不同意；他们要求额外嫁妆或官方付钱作为补偿。
Some men agreed but most did not; they demanded sweeteners in the form of extra dowry payments from the authorities.
贵族家庭不愿意为超过一个女儿办嫁妆，那其余的女儿就被丢弃在修道院。
Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away.
第二天早上，女儿们醒来发现她们的长统袜里装满了金子，足够供她们买嫁妆。
The next morning when the daughters awoke they found their stockings contained enough gold for them to get married.
他还觉得如果我因为上大学而欠了债，那就是一笔价值为负的嫁妆，那样的话就没人愿意娶我了。
And he thought that if I had college debt - a negative dowry - no one would want to marry me.
证婚人说，这场婚礼不用交换嫁妆，并且以后这个男孩仍然可以娶一个人类新娘，而无需申请离婚。
No dowry was exchanged, the witness said, and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.
传说，西班牙国王菲利普四世曾于1664年买下这颗钻石，并把它作为女儿玛格丽特·特蕾莎的嫁妆。
It's rumored that King Philip IV of Spain purchased the jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter, Margaret Teresa, in 1664.
传说，西班牙国王菲利普四世曾于1664年买下这颗钻石，并把它作为女儿玛格丽特·特蕾莎的嫁妆。
It's rumored that King Philip IV of Spain purchased the jewel and included it in the dowry of his teenage daughter, Margaret Teresa, in 1664.
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