然而，在经济繁荣的印度北部地区，不要说掌控新娘的价格，没有嫁妆没人要，没有足够的嫁妆，女子甚至会被杀或是毁容。
Yet in prosperous northern Indian states, far from commanding a bride-price, women whose families have failed to stump up a sufficient dowry still get killed and disfigured.
他们本来没有什么嫁妆给女儿，论柯林斯先生目前的境况，真是再适合不过的一个女婿，何况他将来一定会发一笔大财。
Mr. Collins's present circumstances made it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom they could give little fortune; and his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair.
有角的畜群是身份的象征；是一个没有银行系统的土地上，积攒财富的方式；也是嫁妆的主要组成部分。
Horned herds are a status symbol, a way of storing wealth in a land without a banking system, and the main currency in which dowries are paid.
在印度，东北部邦大部分地区都没有送嫁妆的习俗。
There's no dowry system in most of the North Eastern states of India.
有时候当新郎和新郎的家人没有收到足够的嫁妆钱的时候，新娘可能会遭受到恐怖的虐待。
In some cases when grooms and their families do not receive their desired amount, brides can be subject to terrible abuse.
早在四世纪，相传尼古拉斯在晚上来到三个穷苦的女孩房前，由于没有嫁妆，她们无法和自己的未婚夫结婚。
In the early fourth century a legend began to spread about Nicholas coming at night to the home of three poor girls who did not have dowries and therefore could not marry their fiances.
如果她没有犯过罪，而且并无过错，但是男性离开和忽视她，则女性免罪，她将拿回她的嫁妆和回到她父亲的家。
If she is guiltless, and there is no fault on her part, but he leaves and neglects her, then no guilt attaches to this woman, she shall take her dowry and go back to her father's house.
如果她是没有犯罪的，而在她的部分上没有错误，但是他离开和忽视她，则这女人没有任何罪则，她将拿回她的嫁妆和回到她父亲的家。
If she is guiltless, and there is no fault on her part, but he leaves and neglects her, then no guilt attaches to this woman, she shall take her dowry and go back to her father's house.
她没有权力去想自己的丈夫是个什么样的人，而且面对“不要嫁妆”这最重要的条件，身为女儿应当服从一切安排。
She has no right to inquire what a husband offered to her is like, and when the most important question, "without dowry, " presents itself, she should accept anybody that is given her.
她没有权力去想自己的丈夫是个什么样的人，而且面对“不要嫁妆”这最重要的条件，身为女儿应当服从一切安排。
She has no right to inquire what a husband offered to her is like, and when the most important question, "without dowry, " presents itself, she should accept anybody that is given her.
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