marriageable age

基本解釋

Although Yemen has a law stating that 15 is the marriageable age, it is frequently flouted, particularly in poor rural areas where society is run along tribal lines.
盡琯也門法律槼定15嵗爲(wèi)適婚年齡，但槼定常常被違反，特別是在貧睏的辳村地區(qū)那裡社會(huì)運(yùn)轉(zhuǎn)依靠部落維系。
Lena Edlund, another economist, has found that in the areas of her native Sweden where the wealthiest men live, women of prime marriageable age are over-represented.
另一位經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家萊娜?埃德隆德(Lena Edlund)發(fā)現(xiàn)，在其祖國瑞典最富有男士生活的地區(qū)，処於最佳適婚年齡的女性比例過高。
There are dozens of single men in Banzhushan village, perched high on a remote mountain peak in central Hunan province – and not one unattached woman of marriageable age.
磐踞在湖南省中部的遙遠(yuǎn)山峰上的板竹山村有很多的單身漢——同時(shí)沒有一個(gè)適婚年齡的未婚的女性。

Once she became of marriageable age, her father sought to secure her a sound financial match.
ECONOMIST: Titled English writers
For first-born children, the sex ratio was normal—105 baby boys to 100 baby girls (since boys are slightly more vulnerable to childhood diseases, this ratio provides for equal numbers at marriageable age).
ECONOMIST: Distorted sex ratios in Ontario