wedlock
单词辨析：
普通用词，指结婚的仪式以及相关的婚庆活动，尤指包含宗教仪式的婚礼。
They decided to delay their wedding until August.
他们决定把婚礼推迟到8月。
It will be a small church wedding.
那将是一次小型的教堂式婚礼。
A lot of streets are flagged to celebrate the royal wedding.
许多大街上挂起了旗子以庆祝皇室婚礼。
主要指婚姻关系及已婚状态，也可指结婚仪式。
Marriage is not something to be undertaken lightly.
婚姻大事不可掉以轻心。
Their marriage finally fell apart.
他们的婚姻最终破裂了。
Her third marriage was held in St John's Church.
她的第三次婚礼是在圣约翰教堂举行的。
强调已经结婚的状态。
He was born in/out of wedlock.
他是婚生子/非婚生子。
Wedlock is a padlock.
婚姻是一种枷锁。
相关例句：
I was born later out of wedlock.
我是后来出生的。
As the married couple can't have children, they have adopted a child born out of wedlock.
由于这对已婚夫妇无法生育，他们领养了一个私生子。
Their wedlock is a happy marriage.
他们的分离是美满的姻缘。
Children born within or outside of wedlock They have married for two years, but have not any family yet.
婚生子女和非婚生子女他们已经结婚两年了，但是还没有子女。
You have a child out of wedlock.
你有一个非婚生子。
They all say that the singer had a daughter out of wedlock with a football player.
大家都在谣传说这个歌手和那个足球运动员有一个私生女。