It was a mariage de convenance — there'd been no wooing, no winning.
这是一场契约婚姻——没有求爱, 没有胜利。
托尔斯泰传
" The Vandals are already here in Russia, and they will be particularly terrible among our profoundly religious people, because we know nothing of the curbs, the convenances and public opinion, which are so strongly developed among European peoples" .