青年中文dowries的意思
dowries中文翻譯：
n.嫁妝；天資；亡夫遺產
cowries───n.寶貝螺；梭螺（cowrie的復數形式）
dories───n.海魴類；平底小漁船（dory的復數）
dowdies───adj.懶散的；過時的；寒酸的；n.懶散的女人；邋遢女人；n.(Dowdy)人名；(英)道迪
lowries───n.(Lowrie)人名；(英)勞里
downcries───哀鳴
boweries───n.荷蘭殖民地的種植園或農場；adj.有亭子的；有樹蔭的；n.(Bowery)鮑厄里（紐約一個酒徒充斥的街區）；n.(Bowery)（美）鮑厄里（人名）
donaries───捐贈者
doobries───杜布里斯
scowries───斯科賴斯。
The wells become status symbols, included by many families in their daughters' dowries.───這些水井變成了社會地位的象征，甚至可以作為許多家庭女兒的嫁妝。
Families often go into debt arranging marriages and paying elaborate dowries.───許多家庭常常因籌備婚禮和準備豐厚嫁妝而負債累累。
One measure is the practice of giving dowries.───嫁妝既是一個衡量標準。
The money he earned from tailoring , and crop farming allowed him to buy livestock, necessary for the dowries of his daughters.───他從裁縫店和農場掙的錢使他可以購買家畜，為自己的女兒們買嫁妝。
In parts of India, the cost of dowries is said to have fallen (see article).───在印度部分地區，據說嫁妝的花銷已經降低（見文章）。
In parts of India, the cost of dowries is said to have fallen .───在印度部分地區，陪送女兒的嫁妝據說也減少了。
Exchange rates sometimes involved real money or property, in the form of dowries or bride prices, she noted.───有時交換率牽涉到實際的錢或財產，表現為嫁妝或聘禮，她補充道。
Dowries for daughters were widespread in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The kinds and quantity varied from different family situations.───作為女兒陪嫁的奩產，在唐宋時期是普遍存在的，只是種類和數量因各個家庭的貧富而不同。
Aristocratic families were loth to stump up dowries for more than one daughter. The rest were walled away.───貴族家庭不愿意為超過一個女兒辦嫁妝，那其余的女兒就被丟棄在修道院。
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.