Yes; I am keeping them till my daughter is of marriageable age, and then I shall sell them. They will be her dot.

“是的。我还留着。等我的女儿到了出嫁的年龄我再卖，给她做陪嫁。”

Joan and Priscilla must be now of a marriageable age.

琼和普里西拉现在一定到了适婚年龄。

The Bangladesh cabinet has proposed measures lowering the marriageable age for young men and women, but significantly toughing the penalty for violating the limits.

孟加拉国内阁提出降低年轻人结婚年龄的措施，但加大了对违反该限制者的惩罚。

These aristocrats of marriageable age attended only the parties that included others in their social sphere.

这些达到结婚年龄的贵族只参加那些将其他人纳入其社交范围的聚会。

So let's say I have three daughters who are just approaching or maybe already in marriageable age.

假设我有三个女儿，她们即将或已经到了适婚年龄。

She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.

她不会放过一个处于结婚年龄的男人，从苏伦的意中人黄胡子的老弗兰克·肯尼迪，一直到羞怯寡言、容易脸红的查尔斯·汉密尔顿，即媚兰的哥哥。

And there is definitely a bit of a mismatch and imbalance in terms of the gender ratio of marriageable age people in this country.

就适婚年龄人口的性别比例而言 这个国家肯定存在着一些不匹配和不平衡。

The first was the scarcity of girls of marriageable age. The second, and more serious one, was that Gerald was a " new man, " despite his nearly ten years' residence, and a foreigner.

第一是这里结婚年龄的姑娘很少，另外，也是更不好办的一点，杰拉尔德是个" 新人" （尽管他在这里已居住了将近十年），又是外国人，谁也不了解他的家庭情况。