Those years were not like the ancient times when the family expected marriage proposals for their daughters 15 years old and above 那时候，女孩子过了十五岁，并不是像古代那样，家里人开始指望有人来提亲。
We have a little sister , and she hath no breasts : what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for 我们有一个小妹妹，她的两乳还未发育完全；有人来提亲的时候，我们当为她怎样办理呢？
" but , " said danglars thoughtfully , " how is it that your patron , m . de monte cristo , did not make his proposal for you ? 只是， ”他若有所思地又加上了一句话， “您的保护人基督山先生这次怎么不来代您提亲呢？ ”
" her dad ' s a great friend of pa ' s . i have enough money now to support a family ， so i ' ll ask pa to have a matchmaker arrange things . "她的父亲是爹爹的好朋友，我现在的钱已经足够养家了，所以我要让爹爹找个媒人去提亲。
He has promised to use his influence to obtain it for me ; but he also declared that he never had taken on himself the responsibility of making proposals for another , and he never would 他答应为我设法办到这一点。但他又说，他从不代人提亲，将来也决不做这种事。
When a couple decides to get married , a formal meeting of both parents is typically held to discuss the actual date of the wedding as well as the wedding banquet 提亲及确立婚约当一对准新郎新娘决定结婚，便会互相邀请双方的家长见面，商讨有关婚礼的形式、日期及酒席安排等。
When , the day after the arrival of this answer , your father came by the advice of monte cristo to ask my daughter s hand for you , i decidedly refused him , but without any explanation or exposure 在我收到回信的第二天，你父亲在基督山的怂勇下，正式来为你提亲，我坚决地拒绝了他，没有作任何解释。
Then she thought this would be rude after what he had done for her . then the idea struck her that her aunt and the governors wife had views of some sort upon her and rostov ; their words and glances had seemed at times to confirm this suspicion . then she told herself that it was only her own depravity that could make her think this of them : could they possibly fail to realise that in her position , still wearing the heaviest mourning , such match - making would be an insult both to her and to her fathers memory 她时而决定：他来看姨母时，她不到客厅里去，因为她在服重丧期间接待宾客是不适宜的她时而考虑，他为她尽过力，这样做未免失礼她时而想到姨母和省长夫人对她和罗斯托夫有某种期望她们的目光和谈话似乎证实这一推测，时而对自己说，这不过是她以自己不好的心肠去揣度她们：她们是不能不懂得的，在她这种现状下，在孝服还未脱去的时候，提亲对她，对悼念父亲，都是一种亵渎。
