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。

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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。

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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。

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Families scrimped and saved for years to build a dowry so that their daughter might marry well.

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When she was a young woman her father gave her a choice - he could afford a dowry or pay for her degree, but not both.

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In 1658, the Sultan of Brunei gave Sabah to the Sultan of Sulu - either as a dowry or because troops from Sulu had helped him quell a rebellion.

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