“訂婚戒指”也有男女之分

不管看影視劇也好，小說也罷，通常要提到訂婚儀式，肯定就有男主角給女主角戴戒指的場景，這個訂婚戒指叫做engagement ring我們也都知道。不過，最近有個新趨勢，女方也開始給男方送訂婚戒指了， 你知道嗎？

In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. Conventionally, the ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future marriage.

在西方的傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗中，訂婚戒指一般是由女方佩戴用來顯示其訂婚待嫁的身份。一般來說，男方會在向女方求婚或者女方答應(yīng)求婚后將戒指作為禮物在訂婚儀式上送給女方。這個戒指代表正式的婚約。

In the United States and Canada today it is becoming more common, but still rare, that a woman will also buy her partner an engagement ring at the time of the engagement. These may be called male engagement rings or mengagement rings, which is a portmanteau of "man" and "engagement ring".

如今，在美國和加拿大，女方也開始流行在訂婚時給男方送訂婚戒指，不過，這種現(xiàn)象目前還不是太普遍。這種女方送給男方的訂婚戒指叫做男士訂婚戒（male engagement ring或者mengagement ring），mengagement ring是man（男士）和engagement ring（訂婚戒）兩個詞的合成形式。

（中國日報(bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Helen ）