marry
UK ['mær.i] US ['mer-] verb
MAN AND WOMAN 男人和女人
ESSENTIAL intransitive or transitive
■to become the legally accepted husband or wife of someone in an official or religious ceremony 娶；嫁；（和…）结婚•Men tend to marry later than women.男性成婚往往晚于女性。 •Paul married Lucy four years ago.保罗四年前和露西结婚了。 •They don't have any plans to marry at present.他们目前没打算结婚。 transitive
■to perform the ceremony of marriage as a priest or official （牧师或官员）为…证婚，为…主持婚礼•The couple were married by the Archbishop of Canterbury.这对新人的婚礼是由坎特伯里大主教主持的。
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COMBINE 结合
■to combine two different qualities （把两种素质、特性）融合•a design which marries fun with function集娱乐性、实用性于一体的设计
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marry beneath you
■to marry someone people think is not good enough for you because he or she is from a lower social class 和社会地位比自己低的人结婚
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Marry in haste , repent at leisure. saying
■This means that if you marry someone without knowing them well, later you will feel sorry that you married them. 草率结婚后悔多。
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not be the marrying kind humorous
■If a man is not the marrying kind, he does not want to be married. People sometimes use this phrase to mean that the man is homosexual. 不是想结婚的那种人（有时用以指同性恋男子）
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Phrasal Verbs [M] marry sb off
■to make certain that someone, especially a female member of your family, gets married, or that they marry the person you have chosen 把（某人）嫁出去；为（某人）找对象•She was married off to the local doctor by the age of sixteen.她16岁时被嫁给了这个本地医生。
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Phrasal Verbs [M] marry up (sth)
■If two things marry up or if you marry them up, they match or join together （使）匹配；（使）结合•We need to marry up the names on your list with those on my list and see what the overlap is.我们需要将各自名单上的名字对照一下，看看重复的有多少。 |