wedlock
英 [ˈwedlɒk] 美 [ˈwedlɑk]

n.

结婚生活，婚姻，结婚的状态；

英英释义

wedlock[ 'wedlɔk ]

• n.the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

  同义词：marriagematrimonyunionspousal relationship

词组短语

out of wedlock婚外

born out of wedlock非婚生

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. My wife likes our wedlock.
   我妻子喜欢我们的婚姻生活。
2. She thinks having children out of wedlock is not wrong, but unwise.
   她认为不结婚生孩子不算错，但算不上明智。
3. They laughed at her because she was born out of wedlock.
   他们嘲笑她,因为她是私生子。

权威例句

A Theory of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing
Out of Wedlock:Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility
Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.
Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.
Out of Wedlock: Causes and Consequences of Nonmarital Fertility (review)
Welfare and Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Evidence from the 1980s
An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States
The effect of government policies on out-of-wedlock sex and pregnancy.
Welfare benefits, economic opportunities, and out-of-wedlock births among black teenage girls.
Welfare benefits economic opportunities and the incidence of out-of-wedlock births among black teenage girls.