结婚率

marriage rates───结婚率

carriage trade───上层阶级；有钱人

mortgage rate───按揭利率

marriage partner───结婚对象；婚姻伴侣

carriage trades───上层阶级；有钱人

marriage broker───媒人；婚姻介绍所

carriage drive───（可通往门口的）车道

marriage fails───婚姻失败了

marriage lines───结婚证书

Yet over 20 years the price has almost doubled, while America’s marriage rate is down by nearly a third.───纵观过去的20年，虽然结婚率降低几近三分之一，而婚礼费用却几乎翻番。

Our relatively low inter-marriage rate might be explained by our cultural as well as racial differences, and our predilection for holding tightly to our caste systems and religions.───我们相对低的结婚率也许是因为我们的文化以及种族差别，还可能是因为我们偏爱坚持我们的种姓制度和宗教。

A: In Europe, what people really care about is not the marriage rate but the birth rate.───回答：在欧洲，人们真正关心的不是结婚率而是出生率。

But the divorce rate in the United States is half the marriage rate, and that does not bode well for this cherished institution.───然而，美国人的离婚率是结婚率的一半，对于人们珍视的婚姻制度来说，这并不是个好兆头。

A drop in the marriage rate has resulted in a doubling of single-parent households over the past three and a half decades.───过去35年来，结婚率的下降使单亲家庭的数量增长了一倍。

Above several caused the recent years its divorce rate of rise even to be higher than the marriage rate of rise.───以上的几点导致近年其离婚增长速度甚至高于结婚增长速度。

Data from the U. S. Census Bureau shows the marriage rate among young people has declined.───来自美国人口普查局的数据表明，年轻人的结婚率呈下降局势。

Still, given that the marriage rate remains on trend, the rise in cohabitation isn't coming at the expense of marriage.───结婚率仍然在一个趋势上，同居数量的上升并不是以婚姻为代价的。

This trend reflects a steady decline in the teenage marriage rate since 1970.