在英文中，"求婚"可用pop the question，ask for someone's hand in marriage，以及propose to someone等短语来表达。比如:
Stuart got serious quickly and popped the question six months later.
斯图尔特很快认真起来，6个月之后便求婚了。
Stuart asked for her hand six months later.
斯图尔特6个月后就向她求婚了。
Stuart proposed to her 3 weeks after their first date.
斯图尔特在他们初次约会三周后向她求婚了。
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A prenuptial agreement or premarital agreement, commonly abbreviated to prenup or prenupt, is a contract entered into prior to marriage, civil union or any other agreement prior to the main agreement by the people intending to marry or contract with each other.
The content of a prenuptial agreement can vary widely, but commonly includes provisions for division of property and spousal support in the event of divorce or breakup of marriage. They may also include terms for the forfeiture of assets as a result of divorce on the grounds of adultery, further conditions of guardianship may be included as well.
There are two types of prenuptial agreements: marriage contract for people who are married or about to be married, and cohabitation agreement for unmarried couples. A variation for people who are already married is a postnuptial agreement, also called a postmarital agreement.
1. Her parents wanted nothing more than to marry her off to a doctor.
她父母一心想把她嫁给一个医生。
2. Because of her beauty she has managed to marry above her.
由于貌美，她得以嫁给一个地位比她高的人。
3. He married beneath himself, but he is happy.
他娶了一个地位比他低的女人，但是他很幸福。
4. Sally wanted some time to consider Sam's proposal of marriage; she had heard the saying, "Marry in haste, and repent at leisure."
莎莉需要一些时间来考虑山姆的求婚，她听过那句谚语：结婚太急，后悔莫及。
5. She was able to marry her way out of poverty.
她通过嫁人摆脱了穷困。
6. She tried everything to marry into money.
为了嫁入豪门，她想尽了办法。
7. Many girls want to marry into the purple.
很多女孩都想嫁入豪门。
8. He wishes one day he could marry a fortune that can help him in the career.
他梦想有一天能娶个富家女，在事业上帮他一把。
9. They are going to have shotgun marriage next week.
他们下周要结婚了，是奉子成婚。
10. Cyber love, one-night stand, speed dating and flash marriage have been common in big cities.
网恋、11111、速配和闪婚在大城市里已见怪不怪了。
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[形婚 marriage of convenience]
A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as political marriage. In the cases when it represents a fraud, it is called sham marriage.
Another common reason for marriages of convenience is to hide one partner's homosexuality in cases where being openly gay is punishable or potentially detrimental. A sham marriage of this type, known as the lavender marriage, may thus create the appearance of heterosexuality. Such marriages may have one heterosexual and one gay partner, or two gay partners: a lesbian and a gay man married to each other. In the case where a gay man marries a woman, the woman is said to be his "beard".
Marriages in modern society are like French fries produced on restaurant assembly lines, coming and going in the twinkle of an eye. There is flash marriage and flash divorce. Young men and women may get married soon after their first date, and then file for divorce not long after the wedding. Marriage is treated like a game. Getting married and divorced is just like having a meal in a fast-food restaurant, that's where the term "fast-food marriage" comes from.
A "status-gap marriage" is one in which there is a clear gap in income, pedigree, social status, etc. between the husband and wife. The phrase usually refers to marriages in which a woman marries "beneath herself".
格差婚指夫妻双方在收入、家庭条件、社会地位等方面相差悬殊的婚姻，多指女方"下嫁"的情况。
[新手婚姻 starter marriage]
A starter marriage is a first marriage that lasts five years or less and ends without the couple having any children together. The term, a play on the expression "starter home", appears as one of the footnotes in Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X. However, published usage of the term grew significantly after the publication of Pamela Paul's 2002 book The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony.
Gayriage refers to marriage to a person of the same sex. When two men get "married", it is a gayriage, while marriage between a woman and a woman is a lesriage.