Big not only promised her request, also promised to give her a dowry.
大太太不仅答应了她的请求，还许诺给她一笔嫁妆。
If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service.
如果一个年轻女子没有嫁妆，她就要做家政服务赚钱。
I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.
我坦白，作为一个年轻女孩我爱上了一个不想因我的嫁妆而娶我的男人。
This prisoner named Kakule says he is guilty only of marrying young and not being able to pay a dowry.
这个名为Kakule的犯人说，他有罪只是因为结婚太早，并且买不起彩礼。
KAKULE: "I went to my girlfriend's family to propose marriage, but I had nothing to give for a dowry."
我去女朋友家家里提亲，但我没什么可以作为彩礼。
Sanjay said that when his first daughter got married, he did not have to pay a dowry because she is well-educated.
桑杰说，大女儿接受了良好的教育，所以她结婚时家里不需要送出彩礼。
Perhaps a daughter is deemed to join another family on marriage and you want someone to care for you when you are old. Perhaps she needs a dowry.
或许女儿被认为婚后加入了另一个家庭，而你希望在你年老的时候有人能照顾你，又或许是女儿需要陪嫁。
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire and had slain the Canaanites who lived in the city and given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.
先前埃及王法老上来攻取基色，用火焚烧，杀了城内居住的迦南人，将城赐给他女儿所罗门的妻子作妆奁。
The people of a vanishing atoll might somehow retain their rights even if they migrated en masse to another country, or merged with another state, bringing their entitlements as a sort of dowry.
正在消失的岛屿上的居民可以以某种形式保留他们的权利，即便他们已经成群结队的移民到另一个国家或者与另外一个国家合并。这就像是带着嫁妆出嫁一样。
In that area, women's dowry is more than a symbol of wealth, it is also a symbol of power.
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。
And he thought that if I had college debt - a negative dowry - no one would want to marry me.
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。
Indeed, Africa's leaders still like to think of their continent as a gorgeous bride, with a glittering dowry of oil and minerals, to be courted by a swooning world.
的确，非洲领导者们仍把自己的大陆看作是一位美丽的新娘，拥有着原油与矿产资源的闪烁嫁妆，而且会招致一个狂喜的世界去追求。
He also provided a cash dowry, which his mother-in-law used to make rugs and blankets for the couple.
他还给了现金的聘礼，他岳母用来为他们买了地毡和毛毯。
Because sister would like to have a different wedding, she insist the dowry should be books rather than other substances.
因为我妹妹希望举行一个与众不同的婚礼，她觉得好的嫁妆与其他物质性强的东西比起来更有意义。
It offers to pay the traditional dowry of livestock or gifts that is usually paid to a young girl's father by her future husband.
她们承诺给女孩的父亲家畜，或者礼物等传统的嫁妆，这通常是由她们未来的丈夫提供的。
They held the wedding banquet a week later, on Jan. 4, where Mr Zhou's mother formally handed over the dowry -- half of it loans from family members -- to a woman she believed to be Ms. Cai's cousin.
一个星期后， 也就是1月4日，他们举行了婚礼。周先生的母亲正式将彩礼（彩礼中一部分是从亲戚那借来的）交给了被认为是女方亲戚的女人。
With his wife's dowry, the young attorney was able to open a law office.
这位年轻的律师用他妻子的嫁妆开了一定律师事务所。
After a few moths, the groom and his relatives come for the bride and take her to his home along with the dowry.
过了两三个月以后，新娘及他的亲属们前来接新娘，把她和她的嫁妆一起带回丈夫家。
Paying and accepting dowry is a centuries-old South Asian tradition where the bride's parents gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom's family.
新娘的父母给新郎家送钱、衣服和珠宝等嫁妆是南亚几百年来的传统。
A few years later, the noble's daughters were all at the age of marriage. This made the noble even sadder because he didn't have money to buy dowry for his daughters.
一晃几年过去，女儿们陆续到了出嫁的年龄，父亲却变得更加沮丧，因为他没钱给女儿们买嫁妆。
For several months, she continues to stay at her own home preparing her dowry and receiving instructions from her mother on how to be a good wife and mother.
婚礼以后的最初几个月，她要继续住在自己的娘家，以便准备嫁妆，以便接受母亲关于怎样做一个贤妻良母的培训和教诲。
There was a donkey, it was her dowry, I think she can talk to it?
还有那一头驴子，那是她的嫁妆，我想，她可以和它对话吗？
His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry.
他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆。
The obligation to return the dowry and to pay the jointure (ketubah) served as a good security against divorce on insufficient grounds.
归还陪嫁和支付给妻子应继承的遗产的义务，对理由不充足的离婚起了很好的担保作用。
Among them is an Italian singer, whose aria is cut short by the baron's wrangling with a lawyer over Sophie's dowry.
奥斯男爵与律师因苏菲的嫁妆问题争执不下，打断了意大利歌手的咏叹调。
Among them is an Italian singer, whose aria is cut short by the baron's wrangling with a lawyer over Sophie's dowry.
奥斯男爵与律师因苏菲的嫁妆问题争执不下，打断了意大利歌手的咏叹调。
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