| 单词 | marriage of convenience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarriage of convenience 6. The quality of being personally convenient; ease or absence of trouble in use or action; material advantage or absence of disadvantage; commodity, personal comfort; saving of trouble. Hence at one's convenience, to suit or await one's convenience, marriage of convenience, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > personal convenience avenantc1400 easementc1400 commodity1493 convenientness1579 conveniencya1628 convenience1679 convenancy1769 the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > convenient to a person conveniency1649 convenience1890 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 154 The best forming of all Members in a Building for the..Convenience of the intended Inhabitant. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 14 It is only for Convenience, or Ease, that you are content to take them. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 A building..for the convenience of the drinkers. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 55 Articles of necessity, convenience, or luxury. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 14 The convenience of borrowing and lending in one generally recognized commodity. 1888 M. Morris Claverhouse vii. 127 Like Pilate again, he preferred his own convenience, and the prisoner was put to death. 1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Christm. No. 276 He awaited my convenience in the drawing-room. marriage of convenience marriage of convenience a marriage arranged or contracted from motives of convenience, mutual advantage, or expediency (as opposed to love or sexual attraction); (cf. mariage de convenance n.); also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of convenience marriage of convenience1711 mariage de convenance1854 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love. 1949 G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions iv. 53 The proportion of happy love marriages to happy marriages of convenience has never been counted. 1972 C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 64 Reg and June are a bit peculiar in that it was simply a marriage of convenience... They went their own way. 1975 Listener 16 Jan. 84/3 The co-ordinators had..paired each of the piano sonatas with each of the string quartets. Was this just a marriage of convenience..for numerical rather than musical reasons? < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。