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If someone is marriageable, they are seen as suitable for marriage — old enough, and of a kind of person that society (or the speaker) thinks it is all right to marry. You will also hear “marriageable age,” the age at which law or custom says a person may marry. The word does not mean “already married,” and it does not mean “wants to get married.” It only means “fit to be married,” in someone else’s eyes. It is rather old-fashioned. Used about a living person, especially a woman, it can sound cold, as if a person were being judged like goods. Younger speakers mostly avoid it that way. You still meet it in older novels, in history, and in careful talk about the legal age for marriage. Though actually “marriageable age” in a law book and “a good age to marry” in real life are not the same thing.
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
marriageableadj
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Suitable for marriage.
- The acting which one sometimes meets with on the stage, when an attempt is made to convey an idea of the cunning of a designing mamma in her efforts to please a marriageable man, and the arts and efforts of young miss herself to secure his regards, fall infinitely short of the reality of actual life.
- Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.
marriageablenoun
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One who is suitable for marriage.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。