| 单词 | marriage alliance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarriage alliance marriage alliance n. ΚΠ 1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church xx. 455 For there are but two ways of putting an end to Wars, either by force and Conquest, or by Marriage-Alliance. 1791 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 817 (caption in print) Marriage Alliances [inscribed on a drum beaten by Hymen]. 1859 S. Waller in A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives IV. 400 Cato..answered, ‘Go,..and tell Pompey that..I promise him a friendship more sure than any marriage alliance.’ 1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. v. 200 The control of surplus resources locates the elder in a position enabling engagement in the exchange networks..associated with marriage alliance. 2004 J. E. A. Dawson in R. Tittler & N. Jones Compan. Tudor Brit. x. 173 The English would gain by the peaceful route of a marriage alliance what they had failed to win by force of arms. < as lemmas |
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