dowries信息详情
n.嫁妆；天资；亡夫遗产
cowries───n.宝贝螺；梭螺（cowrie的复数形式）
dories───n.海鲂类；平底小渔船（dory的复数）
dowdies───adj.懒散的；过时的；寒酸的；n.懒散的女人；邋遢女人；n.(Dowdy)人名；(英)道迪
lowries───n.(Lowrie)人名；(英)劳里
downcries───哀鸣
boweries───n.荷兰殖民地的种植园或农场；adj.有亭子的；有树荫的；n.(Bowery)鲍厄里（纽约一个酒徒充斥的街区）；n.(Bowery)（美）鲍厄里（人名）
donaries───捐赠者
doobries───杜布里斯
scowries───斯科赖斯。
The wells become status symbols, included by many families in their daughters' dowries.───这些水井变成了社会地位的象征，甚至可以作为许多家庭女儿的嫁妆。
Families often go into debt arranging marriages and paying elaborate dowries.───许多家庭常常因筹备婚礼和准备丰厚嫁妆而负债累累。
One measure is the practice of giving dowries.───嫁妆既是一个衡量标准。
The money he earned from tailoring , and crop farming allowed him to buy livestock, necessary for the dowries of his daughters.───他从裁缝店和农场挣的钱使他可以购买家畜，为自己的女儿们买嫁妆。
In parts of India, the cost of dowries is said to have fallen (see article).───在印度部分地区，据说嫁妆的花销已经降低（见文章）。
In parts of India, the cost of dowries is said to have fallen .───在印度部分地区，陪送女儿的嫁妆据说也减少了。
Exchange rates sometimes involved real money or property, in the form of dowries or bride prices, she noted.───有时交换率牵涉到实际的钱或财产，表现为嫁妆或聘礼，她补充道。
Dowries for daughters were widespread in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The kinds and quantity varied from different family situations.───作为女儿陪嫁的奁产，在唐宋时期是普遍存在的，只是种类和数量因各个家庭的贫富而不同。
Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away.───贵族家庭不愿意为超过一个女儿办嫁妆，那其余的女儿就被丢弃在修道院。
Without military strength to assist in their retention, dowries could prove but short-term gains.
India's gender balance has already been tilted in favour of boys by female foeticide – sex selection abortions - by families who fear the high marriage costs and dowries they may have to pay.
For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion.
In the upper classes women often remained unmarried because their families could not provide sufficient dowries.
The 1961 law forbidding dowries further undermined traditional Hinduism.
They have frowned on the extraction of dowries from the parents of brides.