首页英语词典wifewife的意思

wife

英 [waɪf] 美[waɪf]

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近义词female married woman mate spouse

反义词

n. 妻子，已婚妇女；夫人

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妻子 wife 我爱妇(我爱的妇人)
2. wife 妻子 -我爱夫、我爱抚。
3. wife 妻子 -我夫----我的夫人。

中文词源

wife 妻子

来自古英语wif,女人，女士，妻子，来自Proto-Germanic*wiban,可能来自PIE*webh,弯，转，纺织，词源同weave,web。引申义男耕女织，女人，妻子。

英英释意

1. a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

英文词源

wife: wife: [OE] Wife originally meant simply ‘woman’, but the semantic restriction to ‘married woman’ began in the Old English period and has become more and more firmly established as the centuries have passed. Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib has largely been replaced by frau, and Dutch wijf, Swedish vif, and Danish viv are no longer front-line words. It is not known what its ultimate source was. A woman is etymologically a ‘wife-man’, that is, a ‘womanperson’, a ‘female-person’.
wife (n.): Old English wif (neuter) "woman, female, lady," also, but not especially, "wife," from Proto-Germanic *wiban (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian wif, Old Norse vif, Danish and Swedish viv, Middle Dutch, Dutch wijf, Old High German wib, German Weib), of uncertain origin, not found in Gothic.

Apparently felt as inadequate in its basic sense, leading to the more distinctive formation wifman (source of woman). Dutch wijf now means, in slang, "girl, babe," having softened somewhat from earlier sense of "bitch." German cognate Weib also tends to be slighting or derogatory and has been displaced by Frau.

The more usual Indo-European word is represented in English by queen/quean. Words for "woman" also double for "wife" in some languages. Some proposed PIE roots for wife include *weip- "to twist, turn, wrap," perhaps with sense of "veiled person" (see vibrate); and more recently *ghwibh-, a proposed root meaning "shame," also "pudenda," but the only examples of it would be the Germanic words and Tocharian (a lost IE language of central Asia) kwipe, kip "female pudenda."

The modern sense of "female spouse" began as a specialized sense in Old English; the general sense of "woman" is preserved in midwife, old wives' tale, etc. Middle English sense of "mistress of a household" survives in housewife; and the later restricted sense of "tradeswoman of humble rank" in fishwife. By 1883 as "passive partner in a homosexual couple." Wife-swapping is attested from 1954.

考试真题

I did all the cooking myself and my wife waited on tables.

Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings

He and his wife did everything by themselves.

Barbara Sanders is a wife and the mother of two children, ages 2 and 4.

And here's one more: We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair.

But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife——not the husband一becomes seriously ill.

I don't attend services when I am there, and I have never meditated, there or anywhere; I just take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness, recalling that it is only by stepping briefly away from my wife and bosses and friends that I will have anything useful to bring to them.

The author takes walks and reads and loses himself in the stillness of the hermitage so that he can bring his wife and bosses and friends around him anthing valuable

He still had time to be a student senator and meet his wife.

For this he and his wife received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910, and did so again in 1912 for their work on very high frequency radio waves.

Question 14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time

What do we learn about the man's wife from the conversation?

If you tell an acquaintance you are a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who does volunteer work on weekends, several elements of your self-image are bought to light — the roles of grandparent, widower and conscientious citizen

His wife is going to give birth to a baby.

His wife will leave her work soon

Andrea, Rick and Zac stayed in the basement department, sharing laundry and single bathroom with Michael, his wife and their two children.

You know, it's a birthday gift for my wife.

But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

For example, my wife can be very harsh.

Founders Taylor Collins and his wife, Katie Forrest, used to be endurance athletes; now they're advocates of grass-fed meat.

In 2009, he and his wife Laura launched Maple Hill Creamery, an organic, all grass-fed yogurt company in northern New York.

The editors' office used to be occupied by founder Dewitt Wallace, who along with his wife lila Acheson Wallace, launched Reader's digest in 1922 with condensed articles from other publications.

This isn't really what my wife is trying to criticize me about.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.

Before Steve finished "melancholy flower, " his wife join didn't fully realize the value of her husband's music.

Naomi heard multiple stops and starts, Steve struggling, searching while his wife joni called him "honey" and encouraged him.

None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called "movers and Shakespeares".

That night, I talked to my wife about my conversation with kurt and what I had learned.

Then I'll be able to have dinner with my wife.

Your wife must get some rest.

He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.

Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.

词组搭配

take a woman to wife

(archaic)marry a woman

(古)娶妻

实用场景例句

the doctor's wife: 医生的太太

She's his second wife.: 她是他的第二任妻子。

an increase in the number of working wives: 已婚职业妇女人数的增加

He married his wife Jane 37 years ago...: 他37年前娶了妻子简。

The woman was the wife of a film director.: 这个女人是一个电影导演的妻子。

Application Engineer, currently base in Intel APAC R & D Center in Shanghai, China.: 应用工程师, 目前在位于中国上海的英特尔亚太研发中心工作.

That face called up in his mind the image of his end wife.: 那张脸使他想起了他亡妻的形象.

He treats his wife like a thrall.: 他把妻子当作奴隶看待.

" Go and join the army,'said his wife. " I won't hinder you. ": “ 去参军吧, ” 他妻子说: “ 我不会阻拦你的. ”

He left a wife and two children.: 他遗下一妻二子.

He called out for his wife.: 他大声呼叫他的妻子.

We went down town to do some Christmas shopping and all the world and his wife were there.: 我们去市里购买圣诞用品,那里人山人海.

He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.: 他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作.

My wife has many eccentricities.: 我妻子有很多怪癖.

She is a faithful wife.: 她是个忠实的妻子.

When he got married, Alf was too embarrassessed to say anything to his wife about his job.: 在阿尔弗结婚时, 因为怕难堪,他对妻子只字不提有关自己职业的事.

His wife is very useful at cooking.: 他的妻子擅长烹调.

His affections were turned from his wife.: 他对妻子的感情转移了.

He was most insulting to my wife.: 他对我的妻子非常粗野无礼.

He'll go to great lengths to get his child back from his former wife.: 不管花多大力气,他都要把孩子从前妻那里要回来.

He left his wife and children behind.: 他抛下了妻子儿女.

He has been desolate since his wife died.: 自从妻子去世后,他一直很孤独.

I feel chained down with a wife, a house and children.: 我觉得受妻子、家室之累.

My wife had laryngitis and lost her voice for several days.: 我妻子患喉炎,噪子哑了好几天了.

Shortly after they became man and wife Tom began to show the cloven foot.: 他们结婚不久汤姆便露出了他的凶恶本性.

He took an heiress to wife and was regarded with suspicion by her family.: 他娶了个女继承人为妻子,女方家庭对他的结婚动机抱有怀疑态度.

She is a good girl, and will make a hardworking, devoted wife.: 她是一个好姑娘, 将来会成为一个勤劳忠贞的贤内助.

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