a marriage of convenienceSSFMARRYa marriage that has been agreed for a particular purpose, not because the two people love each other 基于利害关系的婚姻,权宜婚姻 In the past most royal marriages were marriages of convenience, arranged for political reasons. 过去大部分的皇室婚姻都是基于政治因素的权宜婚姻。
a marriage of convenience• Gerard Depardieu plays a French immigrant in a marriage of convenience with Andie McDowell.• He told me he was in a marriage of convenience.• Though the diplomatic courtship is at an early stage, the Foreign Office is optimistic about such a marriage of convenience.• After all, it was a marriage of convenience for her.• The Home Office had suspected that it was a marriage of convenience, to get the woman in.• It was a marriage of convenience.
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