Ranjeet Ranjan, a member of parliament from the eastern state of Bihar, plans to introduce a bill designed to curb excessive wedding expenses in India.
来自印度东部比哈尔邦的一名议员兰吉特·兰詹计划提出一项议案来抑制印度过多的婚礼花费。
The proposal, should it become law, would require families that shell out more than 500,000 rupees ($7500) on nuptials to donate 10% of the money spent to a special government fund. The money raised would be used to help poorer families pay for their own weddings.
The bill would also authorize the government to "fix the limit of guests and relatives and number of dishes to be served" in order to prevent food wastage.
"In our country there are so many million people who don't have two meals to eat everyday, and even they have to get their children married," Ranjan said in an interview on Thursday.
The lawmaker did not elaborate on how wedding spending would be monitored. But one of her representatives said that "police and other officials" will enforce the rules.
相关单词：curb
curb解释：n.场外证券市场，场外交易；vt.制止，抑制
curb例句：
I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
相关单词：nuptials
nuptials解释：n.婚礼；婚礼( nuptial的名词复数 )
nuptials例句：
Their nuptials were performed by the local priest. 他们的婚礼由当地牧师主持。 来自《简明英汉词典》
If he married, when the nuptials would take place, and under what circumstances? 如果他结婚，那么什么时候举行婚礼？在什么情况下举行婚礼？ 来自辞典例句
相关单词：authorize
authorize解释：v.授权，委任；批准，认可
authorize例句：
He said that he needed to get his supervisor to authorize my refund.他说必须让主管人员批准我的退款。
Only the President could authorize the use of the atomic bomb.只有总统才能授权使用原子弹。
