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单词 shotgun marriage
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Definition of shotgun marriage in English:

shotgun marriage

(also shotgun wedding)
noun
informal
  • An enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant.

    〈非正式〉(尤指因新娘已怀孕而举行的)强制结婚;匆忙结婚

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day.
    • In terms of mergers, unions do need to be more powerful, but you also can't have shotgun weddings in labor.
    • A spokesman for the circus said: ‘This is not so much a shotgun wedding but a wedding at knife point.’
    • Seen in that unforgiving light it's difficult to tell if that long love affair was nothing of the sort, but more of a shotgun wedding.
    • The couple didn't so much mind the shotgun wedding, but it created a nightmare of paperwork and legal wrangling.
    • Populism finds itself in a shotgun wedding with the Lasch theory as a very powerful propagandistic tool.
    • Fewer pregnant single women are opting for a shotgun wedding, as well.
    • The shotgun wedding of an open source project and a closed source tool was always likely to end in tears, and it finally fell apart, with much recrimination, last week.
    • Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce.
    • For that reason, avoid shotgun weddings that outside forces try to arrange for you.
    • Well, it says here that Hawkins was carrying out an illegal shotgun marriage.
    • It's a shotgun wedding of the grooming categories.
    • He looks like a teenager at his shotgun wedding.
    • I got panned in The Sunday Times by Gill who called me a failed footballer who had a shotgun wedding and we had to sue.
    • The negative consequences of this shotgun marriage of finance and culture are obvious.
    • At the same time it mixed its wry, tearstained tales of shotgun weddings, small town love and ambitions with a dexterity, slickness and humour that ensured they were now a world class act.
    • A shotgun wedding ensues and, after a honeymoon in the big city, Fausto finds himself railroaded into a store clerk job by his helpful father-in-law.
    • They decided to get married months ago, so it's not a shotgun wedding, guys!
    • There will always be traditionalists who like the idea of a big ceremony and there will always be shotgun weddings too.
    • The proposed merger is a shotgun marriage, the result of a deal negotiated in secret by a small cabal of party leaders and in response to extraordinary pressure from Canada's corporate elite.

Definition of shotgun marriage in US English:

shotgun marriage

(also shotgun wedding)
nounˈˌSHätˌɡən ˈmerij
informal
  • An enforced or hurried wedding, especially because the bride is pregnant.

    〈非正式〉(尤指因新娘已怀孕而举行的)强制结婚;匆忙结婚

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I got panned in The Sunday Times by Gill who called me a failed footballer who had a shotgun wedding and we had to sue.
    • For that reason, avoid shotgun weddings that outside forces try to arrange for you.
    • A spokesman for the circus said: ‘This is not so much a shotgun wedding but a wedding at knife point.’
    • Populism finds itself in a shotgun wedding with the Lasch theory as a very powerful propagandistic tool.
    • He looks like a teenager at his shotgun wedding.
    • At the same time it mixed its wry, tearstained tales of shotgun weddings, small town love and ambitions with a dexterity, slickness and humour that ensured they were now a world class act.
    • They decided to get married months ago, so it's not a shotgun wedding, guys!
    • The couple didn't so much mind the shotgun wedding, but it created a nightmare of paperwork and legal wrangling.
    • It's a shotgun wedding of the grooming categories.
    • The proposed merger is a shotgun marriage, the result of a deal negotiated in secret by a small cabal of party leaders and in response to extraordinary pressure from Canada's corporate elite.
    • Fewer pregnant single women are opting for a shotgun wedding, as well.
    • The shotgun wedding of an open source project and a closed source tool was always likely to end in tears, and it finally fell apart, with much recrimination, last week.
    • Seen in that unforgiving light it's difficult to tell if that long love affair was nothing of the sort, but more of a shotgun wedding.
    • There will always be traditionalists who like the idea of a big ceremony and there will always be shotgun weddings too.
    • Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce.
    • The negative consequences of this shotgun marriage of finance and culture are obvious.
    • While the European Community could still stop it, the legal case for halting this shotgun wedding is looking weaker by the day.
    • Well, it says here that Hawkins was carrying out an illegal shotgun marriage.
    • A shotgun wedding ensues and, after a honeymoon in the big city, Fausto finds himself railroaded into a store clerk job by his helpful father-in-law.
    • In terms of mergers, unions do need to be more powerful, but you also can't have shotgun weddings in labor.
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