widow
widow 英 [ˈwɪdəʊ] 美 [ˈwɪdoʊ]
vt. 使成寡妇, 丧偶 n. 寡妇
进行时:widowing 过去式:widowed 过去分词:widowed 第三人称单数:widows 名词复数:widows
- A widow is a woman whose husband has died. If your uncle dies, your aunt will become a widow.
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- vt. 使成寡妇, 丧偶
- n. 寡妇
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1. She was widowed when she was 35.
她 35 岁时就守了寡。
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2. his widowed father
他鳏居的父亲
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3. She became a widow a year ago.
她一年前成了寡妇。
- widow (n.) Old English widewe, wuduwe, from Proto-Germanic *widuwo (source also of Old Saxon widowa, Old Frisian widwe, Middle Dutch, Dutch weduwe, Dutch weeuw, Old High German wituwa, German Witwe, Gothic widuwo), from PIE adjective *widhewo (source also of Sanskrit vidhuh "lonely, solitary," vidhava "widow;" Avestan vithava, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic vidova, Russian vdova, Old Irish fedb, Welsh guedeu "widow;" Persian beva, Greek eitheos "unmarried man;" Latin viduus "bereft, void"), from root *weidh- "to separate" (source of second element in Latin di-videre "to divide;" see with).
- widow (v.) early 14c.; see widow (n.). Related: Widowed; widowing.
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