be betrothed to somebody old-fashioned SSFMARRYto have promised to marry someone 与某人订婚[定亲]be betrothed to somebody• His youngest son John was to be betrothed to the Count's daughter and heiress presumptive.• But she was being absurd, she scarcely knew this man and what was it to her who he was betrothed to?
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