These are all bridal dowries.

这些都是新娘子的嫁妆啊。

One measure is the practice of giving dowries.

女方提供嫁妆既是一个衡量标准。

The bride brought many dowries to her husband.

新娘带着很多嫁妆给她丈夫。

The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.

1961年，法律更进一步地破坏印度教传统的嫁妆。

Families often go into debt arranging marriages and paying elaborate dowries.

许多家庭常常因筹备婚礼和准备丰厚嫁妆而负债累累。

The wells become status symbols, included by many families in their daughters' dowries.

这些水井变成了社会地位的象征，甚至可以作为许多家庭女儿的嫁妆。

Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away.

贵族家庭不愿意为超过一个女儿办嫁妆，那其余的女儿就被丢弃在修道院。

Exchange rates sometimes involved real money or property, in the form of dowries or bride prices, she noted.

有时交换率牵涉到实际的钱或财产，表现为嫁妆或聘礼，她补充道。

The money he earned from tailoring, and crop farming allowed him to buy livestock, necessary for the dowries of his daughters.

他从裁缝店和农场挣的钱使他可以购买家畜，为自己的女儿们买嫁妆。

Dowries for daughters were widespread in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The kinds and quantity varied from different family situations.

作为女儿陪嫁的奁产，在唐宋时期是普遍存在的，只是种类和数量因各个家庭的贫富而不同。

Horned herds are a status symbol, a way of storing wealth in a land without a banking system, and the main currency in which dowries are paid.

有角的畜群是身份的象征；是一个没有银行系统的土地上，积攒财富的方式；也是嫁妆的主要组成部分。

Chopsticks are traditionally placed in brides' dowries, because "chopsticks" in Chinese is pronounced "kuaizi", which sounds like "get a son soon."

筷子在传统上是被当作新娘的嫁妆的，因为“筷子”在汉语中读作“kuaizi”，听起来很像“快得儿子”。

Rather, as Indians grow wealthier, dowries are getting more lavish and are spreading to places where they were once rare, such as in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in the south.

随着印度越来越富，嫁妆越来越奢侈，同时也慢慢传到了置办嫁妆不那么流行的南部地区，像泰米尔纳德邦和喀拉拉邦。

In the early fourth century a legend began to spread about Nicholas coming at night to the home of three poor girls who did not have dowries and therefore could not marry their fiances.

早在四世纪，相传尼古拉斯在晚上来到三个穷苦的女孩房前，由于没有嫁妆，她们无法和自己的未婚夫结婚。

In many child marriages, girls are given away to older men in return for dowries or following the custom by which a father promises his daughters and sons to marriage while still children.

在许多儿童婚姻的案例中，女孩被许配给大龄男人以期得到嫁妆为回报，或者是由于习俗，父亲在孩提时代便允诺子女的婚姻。