A boy , on the other hand , will one day bring home a bride and dowry .
相反,如果是儿子的话,就会在将来的某天带回一位新娘和丰厚嫁妆。
For instance , when girls reach 18 , there are fears that their windfall will simply go towards their dowry .
例如,年满18周岁的女孩,有人担心他们的福利津贴会逐渐地只是变成了他们的嫁妆。
A bride 's parents often buy a whole set of white goods as a dowry .
新娘的父母一般会买一整套大型家电作为嫁妆。
Each year , his parents piled jewelry higher into that safe , growing a future dowry in accordance with national tradition .
每年,他的父母都会把积攒的珠宝放进那个保险柜,那笔未来嫁妆的数目越来越多,这是民族的传统。
For parents here , having a son often means having a retirement plan , while having a daughter can mean losing your savings to the dowry .
对于这里的父母,有一个儿子就意味着退休后有保障,而又有一个女儿就会意味着存款将作为嫁妆而失去。
She would kill herself , which would save the dowry , too , and her organs would give her loved ones back their lives .
她要自杀,这既能剩下嫁妆钱,又能用自己的器官让自己所爱的亲人重获新生。
No dowry was exchanged , the witness said , and the boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce .
证婚人说,这场婚礼不用交换嫁妆,并且以后这个男孩仍然可以娶一个人类新娘,而无需申请离婚。
Yet in prosperous northern indian states , far from commanding a bride-price , women whose families have failed to stump up a sufficient dowry still get killed and disfigured .
在印度北部富裕的地区,由于不能达到指定的喜娘价格,那些家人不能提供足够嫁妆的女性会被杀或被毁容。
A lot of the women who come are beaten by their husbands , or tormented by their in-laws because their dowry was too low .
来的许多女人不是遭到丈夫的殴打,就是因为嫁妆太少而受到婆家虐待。
We didn 't think for one minute that the writers of " the princess dowry " would let blair just forget all about running away with chuck not that long ago or how she made a deal with the lord to save his life .