| 单词 | to marry down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto marry down g. intransitive. to marry down: to marry into a social stratum considered lower than one's own; cf. sense 1c. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (intransitive)] > marry with social inferior to marry (a person) with the left hand1700 to marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match)1721 to marry down1919 1919 J. A. Rogers As Nature Leads Prol. 27 ‘The tendency as reported’, says the author, ‘is for the Negro race in Brazil to marry up instead of down.’ 1942 J. Dollard Victory over Fear xii. 139 The one who marries down fears to be humiliated by his spouse,..fears that the children will take after the inferior partner in the marriage. 1944 W. H. Gilbert Peoples of India 62 A woman would never marry down but most desirably marries up in the social scale. 1949 R. Centers in Sourcebk. Marriage & Family May 533/2 Males of all groups except semiskilled and unskilled laborers are more frequently married down than up. 1991 L. Romanucci-Ross One Hundred Towers 70 All will tell you that he ‘married up’ and she ‘married down’; ‘hers was one of the first families of Ascoli,’ they say. 2014 L. R. Jones Eel River Rising 300 People say I married down and Sam married up but I think I just married easy. < as lemmas |
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