shotgun wedding
英语
[编辑]
词源
[编辑]暗指新郎被新娘的亲戚用霰弹枪逼上婚礼堂。
发音
[编辑]（澳洲）音频： (档案)
名词
[编辑]shotgun wedding (复数 shotgun weddings)
- (俗语，俚语) 奉子成婚
- 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN，第 48 页:
- If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married.
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- (俗语) 以类似方式强行促成的关系
- 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:
- But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory.
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