术语“多妻”的详细信息

英译术语:

plural wives

汉语语境:

不可否认，徽商在常年经商之地另立家室有着其诸多正当的理由，但故里的宗族、双亲尤其是商妇们对其在外娶妾的态度是复杂的。作为一个有感情的女性，是不希望自己的丈夫在外追芳逐艳的，但同时作为一个生活在程朱理学盛行、世代谨守朱子家礼社会环境下的弱势群体，虽多不甘，但也无奈。两个看似“平等”的家庭，其实质上仍是名分不可混乱的多妻制，所以两地家庭的法律地位是不相等的。

英语语境:

It was undeniable that there were many reasonable reasons for Hui merchants founding families outside, but the attitude of ancestors, parents and stay-at-home wives in their hometown were complex. As a sentient female, the wives did not want their husbands being fickle in love, as a weak social group living in the society of Cheng and Zhu's Neo-Confucianism prevailing, keeping Zhu Zi's Family Rites generation by generation, they were unwilling without other alternatives.The two families were “equal” seemingly, but they were families with strict status among plural wives in essence, so the law status of two different families were unequal.