| 英语单词 | widower |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['wɪdəʊə(r)] 美 ['wɪdoʊər] |
| 中文释义 | n.鳏夫 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The widower is leading an austere life. (2) George was a widower with six young children. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 鳏夫过着艰苦的生活。 (2) 乔治是个带著六个小孩子的鳏夫。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If your grandmother has died, you can call your grandfather a widower, or a man whose wife is no longer living. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When a man loses his wife, he becomes a widower. The equivalent name for a woman whose husband dies is a widow. In many cases, a man is only referred to as a widower if he has not remarried. Both a widow and a widower are described as being widowed. The feminine form of this word came first, from the Old English widewe. The Indo-European root means "be empty," which perfectly describes the grief that many recent widowers feel. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]鳏夫 A widower is a man whose wife has died and who has not married again. |
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