mar‧ry S1 W2 / mæri / 动词 ( past tense and past participle married , present participle marrying , third person singular marries )

1 [不及物和及物动词] if you marry someone, you become their husband or wife → married :

He married Bea in 1925.

I’m going to ask her to marry me on St Valentine’s Day.

She married young (= at a young age ) .

People in higher social classes are more likely to marry late (= when they are older than is usual ) .

Sophia had, in a sense, married beneath her (= married someone of a lower social class than her ) .

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In everyday English, rather than saying that two people marry , people usually say that they get married.

My parents got married in 1986.

2 [及物动词] to perform the ceremony at which two people get married :

The priest who married us was really nice.

3 [及物动词] to find a husband or wife for one of your children

marry somebody to somebody

She was determined to marry all of her daughters to rich men.

4 [及物动词] ( also marry up ) formal to combine two different ideas, designs, tastes etc together

marry something with/to something

The building’s design marries a traditional style with modern materials.

marry something and something

He writes fiction that marries up realism and the supernatural.

5 not the marrying kind not the type of person who wants to get married :

I’m just not the marrying kind.

marry into something 短语动词

to join a family or social group by marrying someone who belongs to it :

She married into a very wealthy family.

marry somebody ↔ off 短语动词

to find a husband or wife for someone – used in order to show disapproval

marry somebody ↔ off to

They married her off to the first young man who came along.