单词 | married |
释义 | marriedadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. United to another person in marriage. Cf. new-married adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] wedded?a800 spousedc1300 weda1400 marriedc1400 boundenc1426 conjugate1471 nuptial?1585 yoked1607 continuous1642 wedlock-bound1667 coupled1672 conjugated1690 partnered1775 mated1821 attached1898 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 737 Þe gode cordeile vnmaried was so.] c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. x. 113 Ȝif þou be man maried..Hold þe stable. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 226 The knychtis wyf beris the preuilege of hyr maryt husband. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) f. 252 Kynges, prynces,..& maryed persones, & all christen people [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) i. iii. 20 What sayes the married woman? View more context for this quotation 1664 R. Codrington Proverbs in 2nd Pt. Youths Behaviour 185 A married Man must turn his Staff into a Stake. 1752 D. Hume Polit. Disc. x. 174 Marry'd slaves..were esteem'd very inconvenient. 1836 A. F. Gardiner Narr. Journey Zoolu Country 97 An unmarried woman is called Intomebi, A married woman, without children, Umfaz. A married woman, with children, Eneena. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 648 Your Kruboy is very much a married man. 1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield ii. 28 Conder the married man..envied the independence of the young compositor. 1989 A. Walker Temple of my Familiar i. 114 I was the homebody, the married husband and father. b. Relating to or characteristic of married people or marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective] matrimonial1449 yoked1531 conjugal1545 geniala1547 marriageable1597 married1598 hymeneal1602 marital1603 hymenean1606 weddeda1616 matrimonious1645 connubial1656 gamical1660 hymenial1710 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of married persons married1598 Ozzie and Harriet1980 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 887 Cuckow, Cuckow: O word of feare, Vnpleasing to a married eare. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 141 They think that if they were not so strictly restrained from all vagrant Appetites, very few would engage in a married state. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 278. ¶2 When I enter into a married State. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xxi. 324 You, Waverley, will soon know the happiness of mutual affection in the married state. View more context for this quotation a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. iii, in Wks. (1821) II. 57 Mercy on me!—he's greatly altered—and seems to have a settled married look! 1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 57 I put on a silk gown..as looking more married than the cobweb muslins. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xii. 393 He floundered on, his mind speculating as to what sort of atrocities Verloc could have practised under the sleepy, placid appearances of his married estate. 1967 Police Rev. 10 Nov. 1466/1 (advt.) Bachelor or married accommodation is available. 1986 J. Huxley Leaves of Tulip Tree iv. 92 As I was of the ‘married’ status, I was often asked to chaperone girls. 2. figurative and in extended use. a. United, joined together, merged. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined grafted1570 married1599 soldered1601 connubial1807 Siamesed1833 welded1837 wedded1842 cemented1903 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [adjective] > joined or fit to be marriageable1663 married1712 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 85 Examine euery married liniament, And see how one an other lends content. View more context for this quotation 1645 E. Davies Prayer & Petition for Peace sig. A2v These married Isles or united Kingdoms. 1712 A. Pope tr. Ovid Fable Vertumnus & Pomona in Misc. Poems 133 And this fair Vine, but that her Arms surround Her marry'd Elm, had crept along the Ground. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad x. 416 Her [sc. the moon's] married arms embrace her pregnant breast. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 122 The charm of married brows. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 109 The noise of war shall cease from sea to sea, And married nations dwell in harmony. 1884 A. Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 23 54 Reserving..the name of maritonucleus or married nucleus for the renovated nucleus of the egg after its union with the male pronucleus. 1973 Times 23 May 19/1 The..happily married Paternoster pedestrian precinct and the extended churchyard to the north-east. b. Of two prisoners: handcuffed together. Cf. marry v. 9. rare. ΚΠ 1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. 22/1 Married, two fellows handcuffed together. 1927 Dial. Notes 5 455 Married, said of two men handcuffed together. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §500/9 Married, handcuffed together. c. Of an antique: assembled from parts of two or more distinct pieces. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > of antiques or ancient relics > assembled from different parts married1949 1949 T. H. Ormsbee Care & Repair of Antiques iii. 48 Be certain that the piece under consideration is not a ‘married’ one, assembled from stray bottom and top sections, as indicated with secretaries. 1967 ‘A. K. Cole’ Golden Guide Amer. Antiques 11 A ‘married’ piece, made up of parts of two or more similar old pieces, is acceptable if you know what you are getting and paying for. 1973 Washington Post 13 Jan. e16/4 In married pieces, all components are of the same period, but they might be so mismatched as to require extensive recarving or scrolling. 1989 Antique Collecting Mar. 5/1 A married case and movement will never be as good an investment as a genuine clock. B. n. 1. With the. Married people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] married1890 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 482 All violent marriages engender hatred betwixt the married. 1629 W. Mure True Crucifixe 2963 in Wks. (1898) I. 290 The maryed may that strait conjunction see, Of matchlesse loue. 1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 147 Neither did the Night want its Charms both to the married and the unmarried. 1839 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights (1859) I. 190 A similar covering of black silk for the married, and of white silk for the unmarried, is now worn by females of the higher and middle classes. 1890 A. James Diary 30 Nov. (1964) 159 The married, however, thro' their ignoble state are doomed to shatter all the ideals of the soaring spinster. 1925 E. von Arnim Love i. xiii. 127 Those happy lawful caresses that are at once the joy and the duty of the married. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 11 Among the married, faithfulness may be achieved by ‘working to rule’. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 57 Free heterosexual relations between the young unmarried or between the married. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Aug. 9/4 In America..even the married are marriageable. 2. In plural. Married people (frequently in young marrieds). ΚΠ 1897 Overland Monthly Nov. 412/2 I was afraid you 'd have some confounded girl picked out for me..all ‘newly marrieds’ try that on me. 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra i. 8 The kids home from boarding-school and college, and the younger marrieds, most of whom she knew by their first names, and then the older crowd. 1958 Times 22 Nov. 7/7 These teeming ‘young marrieds’ are very different from those less numerous in the Depression, a generation ago. 1970 K. Giles Murder Pluperfect ii. 14 Victorian marrieds, of a certain class, used to sleep around. 1992 Jewish Chron. 7 Feb. 9 Young marrieds were joining Masorti in preference to a US congregation. Compounds married couple n. a husband and wife; also (occasionally) in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people > married couple couple1393 pairc1400 married couplea1625 happy couple1631 man and wife1749 Ozzie and Harriet1974 a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 122/2 A poore married couple Desire an offering sir. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. viii. 147 Admiral and Mrs. Croft..among the married couples . View more context for this quotation 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. vi. 209 We shall be confronted with married couples who..demand that we should provide for them lodgings. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 35 at Twins Two shearers who travel and work together, neither being prepared to ‘take a pen’ unless his mate gets one too. These inseparable mates are sometimes referred to as a ‘married couple’. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. vii. 87 My parents, though I believe they got along better than ninety-nine percent of the married couples in Zephyr, did have their go-rounds. married life n. the lifestyle or mode of life of a married couple. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] bridelockOE yokeOE spousehooda1200 spousea1225 wedlock?c1225 wedlockhoodc1230 marriagec1300 spousal1340 matrimonya1382 espousala1393 muliera1400 spousagea1400 spouseheadc1400 weddedhooda1450 wedhooda1450 wedding1489 espousage1549 the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552 nuptial1566 bed-match1582 bob-tail1585 Hymen's banda1593 Hymen1608 married life1609 conjugality1645 marriage state1652 conjugacy1659 marriage life1662 establishment1684 shackledom1771 connubiality1836 connubialism1848 weddedness1891 bedlock1922 the tender trap1954 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles ix. 4 That for this twelue-month, shee'le not vndertake A maried life . View more context for this quotation 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives II. 262 A peevishness of temper or incompliance of manners,..produce the most incurable aversions in a married life. 1834 J. B. Buckstone (title) Married life; a comedy. 1997 K. O'Riordan Boy in Moon xi. 203 Now she saw that she had spent ten years of married life trying to fall out of love with her husband. married print n. Film a positive film carrying both pictures and a soundtrack. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > printing > [noun] > a print > other types of print mute1933 answer print1940 internegative1952 married print1953 transmission print1960 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing 276 From this cut negative and the negative of the re-recorded composite sound-track, a married print is prepared which is ready for projection to cinema audiences. 1959 F. Chagrin in J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 238 Sound and vision have equal importance; they are equal partners, aiming at an ideal married-print status and preparing for it scrupulously by synchronizing their moods and their movements. 1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds ix. 135 From this original the first ‘married’ print was produced with an optical sound track down one side of the film. 1976 Oxf. Compan. Film 646/1 Optical sound cameras are now used only to produce negatives for making married prints of finished films. married quarters n. accommodation provided at a military base for a married serviceman or servicewoman and his or her spouse (and family). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > married quarters married quarters1846 1846 Q. Rev. Mar. 556 We are not pleading for the universal adoption of what are called married quarters. 1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 5 Feb. 180/2 If he becomes a sergeant, he will receive seventeen shillings and sixpence a week—married quarters—coal and gas. 1992 C. Thubron Turning back Sun ix. 69 A few officers were downing beer or whisky in the major's married quarters. 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