The bride price is one of the traditional marriage customs in China.

彩礼是中国传统婚俗之一。

Indeed, it is not worth it if a loving couple gets separated just because of a bride price.

事实上，如果一对相爱的夫妻仅仅因为彩礼问题而分开，这是不值得的。

Treating bride prices as a bargaining chip has twisted its original purpose as well as its symbolic meaning.

把彩礼当作讨价还价的筹码，这已经扭曲了彩礼最初的目的和象征意义。

And so, of course, my bride price just went up.

所以，当然，我的彩礼就涨了。

After the engagement, the bridegroom-to-be would send betrothal gifts, or a bride price, to his fiancee's family as part of an important ceremony.

订婚后，作为重要仪式的一部分，准新郎会给未婚妻家送聘礼/彩礼。

Typically, we don't have prices — although in some cultures, there's dowries and there's bride prices.

通常，我们没有价格——尽管在某些文化中，有嫁妆和彩礼。

The rights group Girls Not Brides says the bride price paid by husbands of these girls is " used by families as a means of survival" .

权利组织" 女孩不是新娘" 表示，这些女孩的丈夫支付的彩礼" 被家庭用作生存的手段" 。

And when they get them married off, they expect a bride price that can help them recover from the climate impacts.

当他们结婚时，他们期望彩礼可以帮助他们从气候影响中恢复过来。

Faced with economic pressures from the drought, experts say marrying daughters can be a form of relief to families, by having one less mouth to feed and gaining a bride price.

面对干旱带来的经济压力，专家表示，嫁女儿对家庭来说是一种解脱，因为他们少了一张嘴要养活，还能得到彩礼。

With a wide grin, Lauhi then explained that her daughter was very much single and it just so happened that her bride price was, oh, would you look at that the Sampo?

罗希咧嘴笑了笑解释说，她的女儿绝对是单身，碰巧她的彩礼是，哦，你能看看那个三宝磨吗？

Some associated her death to a policy she had sponsored to abolish bride price, or the practice of paying a man for the hand of his daughter in marriage.

一些人将她的死与她发起的一项废除彩礼的政策联系起来，或者说是在婚姻中花钱让男人娶女儿为妻的做法。

In a nonofficial nationwide " bride price" ranking in 2022, East China's Jiangxi Province went to the top with 380,000 yuan, not including a car or an apartment, which is really a whopping price for ordinary wage earners.

在一项非官方出具的2022年全国“彩礼”排名中，中国东部江西省以38万元的彩礼排名第一，这还不包括一辆车和一套房子，这对普通工薪阶层来说确实是一个高昂的价格。

As women were in a disadvantaged position in ancient China's agricultural society, a bride price was regarded as compensation for the changes in a woman's social position after marriage as well as a symbol of their future status in their husbands' family.

在中国古代农业社会，女性处于弱势地位，彩礼被认为是对女性婚后社会地位变化的一种补偿，也是女性未来在夫家地位的一种象征。