英语释义

1. a man who has lost his spouse or partner by death and usually has not remarried

2. a man whose wife has died

3. a man whose wife is dead

片语

The Widows And The Widowers鳏夫寡妇

widowers and widows鳏寡

Black WidowersThe Black Widowers is a fictional men-only dining club created by Isaac Asimov for a series of sixty-six mystery stories that he started writing in 1971. Most of the stories were first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, though a few first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the various book collections into which the stories were eventually gathered.

英汉例句

• To be honest, what I want from life is a close companion, like the sort older widows and widowers have, somebody to share your life with, comfort and respect but not necessarily sleep with.

  说实话，我真正想要的生活是有一个亲密的伴侣，有点像那些老鳏夫和寡妇之间的关系。

• Not only the proportion of widows was higher than that of widowers in each age group, but also women「s remarriage possibility was much lower than men of same age.

  女性高龄老人不仅丧偶比例在各个年龄组都高于男性，且曾经再婚的比例也大大低于同龄的男性老人。

• Data show that few HIV prevention programmes exist for people over 25, married couples or people in stable relationships, widowers and divorcees.

  数据显示，针对25岁以上者、已婚夫妇或性关系稳定者、鳏夫和离婚者的艾滋病毒预防规划很少。

• The builder and the inflexible Masterji also have much in common: both are migrants to Mumbai, widowers and lonely old men whose sons didn」t turn out the way they were supposed to.

  建造商和老顽固Masterji拥有许多共同之处：他们都属于孟买移民、鳏夫独居，各自的儿子也都没有如所想的那般有出息。

• The builder and the inflexible Masterji also have much in common: both are migrants to Mumbai, widowers and lonely old men whose sons didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to.

  开发商和顽固的吉老师也有共通之处：两者都是移居去孟买的鳏夫，年华老去，孤单度日，儿子的发展方向也不如所愿。

• In numerous cities and villages, many women voluntarily take it upon themselves to support and care for aged widows and widowers or adopt orphans.

  在广大城市和乡村，还有很多妇女义务抚养照顾孤寡老人和孤儿。

• A question raised in the face-lifted LIFESTYLE page goes: how should society at large look upon the love between widows and widowers in their twilight years?

  改版后的《生活版》提出了这样的问题：全社会该如何看待鳏寡老人的黄昏之恋？

• Widows and widowers speak of the pain of living an unobserved life – of having no one who knows what time they come home, go to bed, or woke up.

  丧偶者谈到过着无人关注的生活的痛苦——没有人知道他们什么时候回家，什么时候睡觉或醒来。

• Spouses going through midlife crises would not be so quick to elope with their personal trainers; elderly widowers might consult their lawyers before marrying someone resembling Anna Nicole Smith.

  在此之前，正在经历中年危机的夫妇恐怕不能这么快就跟私人教练私奔了吧，那些没了老婆的老头子在和找个女人做老伴之前恐怕也还得先找个法官律师一下——尤其是像安娜·尼克尔·史密斯那种女人。

• Even elderly widows and widowers choose to live on their own.

  连年迈的寡妇和鳏夫都选择独自生活。