英语单词 | husband |
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英美音标 | 英 ['hʌzbənd] 美 ['hʌzbənd] |
中文释义 | n.丈夫 |
英语例句 | (1) My husband is a stamp collector. (2) Mary accused her husband of snore too loudly. |
中文例句 | (1) 我丈夫是个集邮者。 (2) 玛丽指责她丈夫打呼噜太响。 |
vocabulary简明 | A husband is a married man. Your grandfather might joke that he and your grandmother have been husband and wife for so long because she has the patience of a saint and he is deaf as a post. |
vocabulary扩展 | The word husband comes from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, where hūs meant house and bōndi meant dweller. As a verb, husband means to conserve resources and use them frugally. Because of the flooding in the area, roads are cut off and everyone is being asked to husband their supplies. This conservation of resources sense of husband also occurs in the related noun husbandry. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]丈夫 A woman's husband is the man she is married to. [oft poss N]
2 [VERB 动词]节约地使用;节省 If you husband something valuable, you use it carefully and do not waste it. [V n] [LITERARY 文]
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