widowhood
widowhood ['wɪdohʊd]
n. 守寡；寡妇的身份
名词复数:widowhoods
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- n. 守寡；寡妇的身份
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1. Talking about the book made it easier to talkabout her widowhood and, when she was ready, her 9/11 story.
谈起这本书，会让她更容易讲出自己守寡的日子。 当她乐意时，还可以讲讲她的9/11故事。
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2. If we incautiously interpret these numbers as causal – in fact they are merely correlations – then we could conclude that 20 years of marriage is compensation for up to 40 years of widowhood.
如果我们不那么谨慎，将这些数字解读成因果关系——事实上它们只是具有相关性——那么可能会得出下述结论：即，20年的婚姻足以补偿至多40年的丧偶经历。
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3. Findings on the widowhood effect don't come as news to medical professionals, who have observed similar patterns of increased mortality.
对于寡居效应的发现对于医务工作者来说并非新闻，他们早已观察了多起相似的案例。
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