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单词 wife
释义
wifewife /waɪf/ ●●● S1 W1 noun (plural wives /waɪvz/) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINwife
Origin:
Old English wif ‘woman, wife’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Have you met my wife, Doris?
  • Have you met the Ambassador's wife?
  • He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
  • My wife's career is very important to her.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Brown looked at a photograph of his wife on his desk.
  • His death came on Christmas Day, 1875, three months after his wife, Margaret, and baby died in childbirth.
  • How is it you were able to get your wife out?
  • Men who want their wives at home.
  • One year he arrived with a young lady, then came back when she was his wife.
Thesaurus
THESAURUShusband/wife etc
the man/woman you are married to: · My wife’s a teacher.
the person you live with and have a sexual relationship with. Partner is often used when people are not married, or when you do not know if they are married. It is also used when talking about same-sex couples: · He lives with his partner Ruth and their eight-month-old son.
the man/woman you are engaged to: · He and fiancée Wendy Hodgson will marry in July.
a woman who is divorced: · The prince announced his intention to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.
a woman or man whose husband or wife has died: · Imelda Marcos, the widow of the former president
formal your spouse is your husband or wife: · The rule applies to spouses and children of military personnel.
formal someone’s estranged husband or wife is one who they do not live with anymore: · She is trying to get her sons back from her estranged husband.
Longman Language Activatorthe people who are married
two people who are married to each other, or who are having a romantic relationship: · An elderly couple live next door.· They're a nice couple, aren't they?married couple: · Shirley and Bob are a young married couple with two small children.
a man and woman who have recently married: · Everyone left at about midnight, leaving the newlyweds alone at last.· The hotel seemed to be full of newlyweds.
formal a married couple: as man and wife: · Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.pronounce somebody man and wife (=say that two people are officially married): · Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
· Are you married or single?· We've been married for 25 years.married to · Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.happily married · Richard is happily married with two young children.
the woman that a man is married to: · My wife's career is very important to her.· Have you met the Ambassador's wife?first/second etc wife: · He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
the man that a woman is married to: · I don't like Francesca's husband very much.· How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?first/second etc husband: · Gary's her second husband.
formal the man or woman that someone is married to - use this in legal or official contexts: · You may choose to pay income tax jointly or separately from your spouse.
the person that someone lives with in a romantic relationship - use this whether they are married or not: · Have you met my partner, Ray?· The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 He threatened to kill his ex-wife’s boyfriend.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=someone who will be your wife, husband, son-in-law etc)
 Mrs. Moore’s late husband
 his long-suffering wife
 the confidence he had gained from having a warm and loving family
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I looked at his young wife, Dawn, with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end.· In addition, Feffer was a busy seducer, especially, it seemed, of young wives.· Gail is very encouraged by a young wives group she started with a friend.· He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife.· Oh yes - naturally - a young wife needed a home of her own.· Unlike his much younger wife and his children, he was conservative, loyal to the ways of the old country.· Fred watched his young wife go through her weekly ritual thinking how beautiful she looked.· The Eldest Son's young wife was there.
VERB
· Both families refuse to believe Ian would kill his wife and children.· Grab your child as Blue Beard prepares to kill his wife and slump over when the brothers kill him.· The prosecution had claimed that the furniture factory boss resolved to kill his second wife Helen when she walked out on him.· Would he change his mind, Shaw asked, if some one raped and killed his wife, Kitty?· Before driving off, they threatened to kill his wife and young daughter if he did not wait before raising the alarm.· Magistrate accused of trying to kill his wife.· No, I didn't kill my wife.
· He has no plans to leave his wife.· He left his wife, two sons and two daughters behind in Pyongyang.· Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.· Keaton solves that problem by having himself cloned, leaving his wife with more husbands than any woman bargained for.· Almost all household chores and the raising of children is left up to the wife.· He leaves his wife, Patricia Schartle Myrer.· They told him repeatedly to leave his wife.· He could leave his wife and marry her.
· Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife.· Uncle Harvey lived with his wife and daughter at the crest of one such hill.· A married man living with his wife may also be able to claim part of the married couple's allowance.· He lives with his wife and two small children near Amherst, Mass.· But in Kemerovo, where he lives with his wife and three children, the shops are nearly empty.
· He loves his wife and daughters.· Mr Wade loved his wife, anybody could see that.· I can love my wife in the usual way and I can love Shinko in the unusual way!· I love her as wives love their husbands, as friends who have taken each other for life.· Was it possible to be unfaithful yet still love your wife?· He loved his wife and child.· You love your wife, Douglas.· It never taught the next thing, that the husband is to love his wife as his own body.
· Morse looked at his watch: just after half-past six - and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock.· DeVito met his future wife while performing onstage as a demented stable boy.· Then about five years ago 1 met his wife at a concert.· He took out a handkerchief and dried his face, hid behind it to prepare an expression to meet his wife.· You met my wife a few years ago when she came around to let you know about the Neighborhood Watch program?
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
  • Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
  • Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
  • The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
  • The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
  • The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
  • They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
  • We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
  • Kurt was a Bible-college student and a wife beater.
common-law marriage/husband/wife
  • In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.
somebody’s estranged husband/wife
  • A husband and wife partnership ran a chemist's shop.
  • Both husband and wife are undecided and somewhat ambivalent about having a child, or buying a house.
  • If husband and wife are entertaining, then invite another couple.
  • It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
  • Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
  • The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game.
  • The distribution in the next generation depends on the correlation between the wealth of husbands and wives.
  • The Plot A husband and wife longed for a child, and after many years the wife became pregnant.
  • He leaves a wife and three children.
  • Joel Gascoyne died in London 13 February 1705 leaving a wife, Elizabeth.
  • Mr Fraser-Smith, who lived in Devon, leaves a wife and two children.
  • Professor Brown, who was 47, leaves a wife Evelyn, also an Open University tutor and 3 children.
  • The college also offers a creche for two to five-year-olds so that parents can leave children in safe hands.
  • Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
  • Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.
  • As man and wife, we will be one flesh.
  • Binyomin and Tsila had not only kissed but were on the verge of becoming man and wife in earnest.
  • Both are considered totally private affairs, the secret of which is often not even shared between man and wife.
  • But they were as man and wife.
  • It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife.
  • One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife.
  • The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.
  • The victims were man and wife.
live as man and wife
  • Afterwards she would be full of remorse and would return to playing the clean-living model student.
  • First, she had to have earned good grades; second, she had to have been a model student.
  • He is in other words a model student though not necessarily a good one.
  • How is that model employee of yours?
  • In all she was a model wife, and earned the esteem of everyone in the town.
  • Two other girls were model students.
  • Unlike Aung San and Sukarno he was a model student, excelling despite his marginal position.
  • Xavier Hicks, model student, was being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a concealed weapon.
  • It's not true that if trees have a lot of fruit in the autumn it will be a cold winter - that's just an old wives' tale.
  • And so the old wives' tale continues.
  • I think it's an old wives' tale that make-up ruins the skin.
  • Some dismiss these as myth in the sense of old wives' tales.
  • That's only an old wives' tale.
  • The old wives' tales that have answered the pleas of fathers for centuries are mostly ineffective.
  • Whatever doctors, old wives' tales, and the Roman Catholic Church may say, human ovulation is invisible and unpredictable.
  • The resort was full of doctors and lawyers with their trophy wives.
  • Unless it would be for wealthy men interested in acquiring as trophy wives lapsed radicals who look great in workout gear.
  • It seemed that all the world and his wife were in Madrid.
  • Nick and Clem will have invited half the world and his wife, anyway.
  • Now all the world and his wife seems to have heard of them!
  • Only all the world and his wife, if I know Igor.
  • The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
  • This also facilitated close up shots to be taken without the world and his wife looking on.
the woman that a man is married tohusband, spouse:  Have you met my wife? a refuge for battered wives his second wifeex-wife/former wife He threatened to kill his ex-wife’s boyfriend. see thesaurus at married
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