My boyfriend and I had been dating for almost a year and both felt the time was right to join our lives together in holy matrimony .
我和男友交往已快一年,我们都感到是携手步入神圣的婚姻殿堂的时候了。
A half-orphan she had grown up without a mother 's care ; and indeed it was all too evident that she was going into matrimony without any preparation whatsoever .
她是半个孤儿,没有得到母亲的管教;确实如此,她显然对婚姻没有任何准备。
Meanwhile some cities jumped on the valentine bandwagon to encourage lovers to look beyond the day , and its extravagant presents , to focus on the eternal bond of matrimony .
As a prelude to matrimony rather than a wholly unrelated activity , such sex may be regarded as less revolutionary than it might otherwise appear , and correspondingly the automobile which facilitated such sexual encounters may be deemed less subversive than some contemporaries feared .