他描述了在市场里一个40多岁的陌生男人如何走上前来问他是否有适婚的女儿。
He describes how a stranger, a man in his mid forties, approached him in the market asking if he knew of any marriageable girls.
南方历史日报去年发表的一篇文章指出，1860年，适婚的白人男性和女性比例是104比100，1870年这个数字就降到了87.5比100。
An article published last year in the Journal of Southern History reported that in 1860, there were 104 marriageable white men for every 100 white women; in 1870, that number dropped to 87.5.
尽管也门法律规定15岁为适婚年龄，但规定常常被违反，特别是在贫困的农村地区那里社会运转依靠部落维系。
Although Yemen has a law stating that 15 is the marriageable age, it is frequently flouted, particularly in poor rural areas where society is run along tribal lines.
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