shotgun wedding

英语

词源

暗指新郎被新娘的亲戚用霰弹枪逼上婚礼堂。

发音

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名词

shotgun wedding (複數 shotgun weddings)

1. (俗語，俚語) 奉子成婚
   • 2012, Charles W. Dunn, American Culture in Peril, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN，第 48 頁:

     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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2. (俗語) 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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相关词汇

• shotgun marriage

参见

• white wedding