dowries

例句:

• The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.
  1961年,法律更进一步地破坏印度教传统的嫁妆.
  
• The bride brought many dowries to her husband.
  新娘带着很多嫁妆给她丈夫.
  
• Without dowries, money given to the husbands'families, his poor daughters couldn't get married.
  没有嫁妆, 也就是说没有钱可以给夫家的话, 他可怜的女儿就不能结婚.
  
• Professe or "choir nuns" came from families with sufficient status and wealth to pay substantial dowries.
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• If he had been governor of the Punjab, their dowries would have beggared him.
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