widowhood
['wɪdohʊd]
- n. 守寡;寡妇的身份
英英释意
- 1. the time of a woman's life when she is a widow
- 2. the state of being a widow who has not remarried
英文词源
- widowhood (n.)
- c. 1200, from widow (n.) + -hood. Modifying or replacing Old English wuduwanhad "state of a woman who has no husband."
实用场景例句
- Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
- 守寡的打击和悲伤让人难以承受。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age.
- 守寡使她不得不过着孤独的晚年生活.
《简明英汉词典》
- When did this fleeing woman who had maintained a chaste widowhood find a husband?
- 这守活寡的逃妇几时有了个新老公?
汉英文学 - 围城
- Laura Henderson : [ at her husband's funeral ] I'm bored with widowhood.
- 萝拉?韩德森: [ 在她先生的葬礼上 ] 我当寡妇已经当烦了.
期刊摘选
- The widowhood cocks are mated at Christmas, a couple of weeks after the stock birds.
- 在鸽子归舍之后的几个星期后,守寡的雄鸽会在圣诞节时配对.
期刊摘选
- The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keep up a wife's spirits.
- 静居守寡的那种优悠自得的境地,就是使太太精神振作的唯一希望.
期刊摘选
- So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
- 她们如同寡妇被禁, 直到死的日子.
期刊摘选
- Some commentators argue her appeal stems from national sympathy for her widowhood.
- 有些评论人士认为,索尼娅的吸引力来自全国民众对她遗孀身份的同情.
期刊摘选
- This leaves them economically vulnerable when divorce or widowhood strikes.
- 当遭遇离婚或寡居时,这将使她们在经济上非常脆弱.
期刊摘选
- Her early widowhood condemned her to lead a life of hardship.
- 她的早寡注定了她要过困苦的生活.
期刊摘选
- Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
- 守寡的打击和悲伤让人难以承受。
柯林斯例句