| 单词 | to marry up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto marry up f. intransitive. to marry up: to marry into a social stratum considered higher 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 superior over-marry1610 to marry above (also below, beneath) oneself (occasionally also one's match)1721 to marry up1908 1908 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 38 229 In intermixture of various peoples, it is more commonly the man who marries up in the social scale. 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.’ 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 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. May 533/1 Are males who are married to women outside their own stratum more commonly married ‘up’ or more commonly married ‘down’? 1967 L. Barić in M. Freedman Social Organization 14 If a woman marries up then she will tend to join her husband and her husband's parents. 1993 C. Ardai Nobody Wins in B. S. Mosiman & M. H. Greenberg Aug. is Good Time for Killing (1998) 121 They weren't Rockefellers, and Rachel had certainly married up when she wed the scion of the Hoeffler clan, but they weren't exactly hurting for cash, either. 2014 Southern Cult. Spring 58 Celia Foote..has abandoned the squalor of her Sugar Ditch upbringing by ‘marrying up’. < as lemmas |
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