促成別人的婚姻
同一個打結的動作，主詞換人：不是被綁在一起的那兩位，而是動手把結綁上的第三方——證婚人或安排親事的父母。
officiate a wedding · verb · B1
To lead the ceremony that makes two people husband and wife.
為…證婚／主持婚禮
核心畫面
Picture two separate lives being tied into one at a ceremony — two names on one document, from this day counted together. Everything else the word does comes from that knot: the person who ties it, the parent who arranges it, and even two flavours or two ideas that end up working as one.
可以想成：在一場典禮上，兩條原本各走各的人生被綁成一條——兩個名字寫進同一份文件，從這天起一起算。這個字其他的用法都…更多收起
可以想成：在一場典禮上，兩條原本各走各的人生被綁成一條——兩個名字寫進同一份文件，從這天起一起算。這個字其他的用法都從這個「打結」的動作長出來：綁結的那個人、安排這門親事的父母，甚至兩種味道或兩個想法最後合成一個整體，英文用的都是同一個字。From the picture
把兩樣東西結合成一體
把「兩個變成一個」從人搬到東西上：兩種風格、兩種味道、兩套系統合在一起，而且合得很好——重點在「配得起來」，不只是放在一起。
combine well · verb · B1
To join two different things, such as ideas, styles, or flavours, so they work well together.
結合／融合
Also in this word
get married · verb · B1
To become someone's husband or wife in an official ceremony.
結婚／娶／嫁
原始詞典資料11 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。
marryverb詞源 1/ˈmæɹi/
- 1
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
- Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
- I forfeited my inheritance and married outside my parents' faith.
- 2
To enter into marriage with one another.
- Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
- 3
To take as husband or wife.
- In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
- First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): You're about as deep as a bowl of soup, and your tongue is as sharp as a soup spoon. Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Hey, say what you want about me, but lay off the soup. First Xavier: If you love soup so much, why don't you marry soup? Second Xavier: 'cause I'm already married. To justice. First Xavier: Yeah. Only a blind girl would marry you.
- 4
To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
- He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
- THe kyngdom̃ of hevẽ is lyke vnto a certayne kinge / which maryed his ſonne[…].
- 5
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
- A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
- His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
- 6
To acquire by marriage.
- I wanted to marry wealth and power, and got both.
- 7
To join or connect. See also marry up.
- There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
- I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
- 8
To unite; to join together into a close union.
- The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
- Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
nauticaltransportTo place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
- 10
nauticaltransportTo join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.
marryintj詞源 2/ˈmæɹi/
- 1
obsoleteA term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
- You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?
- I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
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。