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单词 to marry money
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to marry money
b. transitive. To obtain (something) by getting married. Chiefly in to marry money: to marry a wealthy person (often implying a material motive).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [verb (intransitive)] > marry rich person
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > obtain (something) by getting married
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1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. ii. 71 in Wks. II Why should not I marry this sixe thousand pound, now I thinke on 't?
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iii. sig. F2 He married the mony, thats all he lookt for, For your daughter, let her sinke or swimme.
1723 R. Steele Conscious Lovers i. ii. 15 A Woman that is espous'd for a Fortune, is yet a better Bargain, if she dies; for then a Man still enjoys what he did marry, the Money; and is disencumber'd of what he did not marry, the Woman.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. xiv. 297 He must marry money, or he will be a ruined man.
1911 L. J. Vance (title) Marrying money.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 98 There'll be no mooning and spooning about it. I mean to marry money.
1936 G. Herzog & C. G. Blooah Jabo Prov. from Liberia 180 If you marry a beautiful woman, you marry trouble.
1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz viii. 290 He married money you know... He went after a girl who had absolutely everything.
1991 ‘W. Trevor’ Reading Turgenev x, in Two Lives (1992) 74 Her mother's sister had married money, it was said, a statement invariably followed by the reminder that the money hadn't lasted.
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