英:[waɪf]
美:[waɪf]
英:[waɪf]
美:[waɪf]
复数:wives
第三人称单数:wives
现在分词:wifing
过去式:wifed
过去分词:wifed
词根:wife
adj.wifelike 适合做妻子的;似妻的
wifely 适于做妻子的;像妻的;妻的
adv.wifelike 似妻地
husband and wife夫妻
good wife好太太,贤内助
wife and children妻儿
second wife第二任妻子
man and wife夫妇
old wife◎老妇,◎饶舌的老太婆;好搬弄是非的人,◎老太婆脾气的男人
child wife非常年轻的妻子,(老夫的)少妻;童养媳,很年轻的妻子
中古英语 wif, wyf,源自古英语 wif(中性)“女人,雌性,女士”,也可以指“妻子”,源自原始日耳曼语 *wīfa-(也是古撒克逊语,古弗里斯语 wif,古挪威语 vif,丹麦语和瑞典语 viv,中古荷兰语,荷兰语 wijf,古高地德语 wib,德语 Weib),起源不明,词源学有争议,在哥特语中没有发现。
显然,在其基本意义上感到不足,导致了更具特色的形式 wifman(woman 的来源)。荷兰语 wijf 现在在俚语中意为“女孩,宝贝”,从早期的“母狗”的意义上有所软化。现代德语同源词(Weib)也倾向于带有轻蔑或贬义的意味; 中古高地德语 wip 在早期中世纪是“女人,女性”, vrouwe(Frau)保留了“出身高贵的女人,女士”的意义; 但从公元1200年开始, wip “带有普通的,几乎是粗俗的语气,限制了它在某些圈子中的使用”,并且在很大程度上被 Frau 所取代。
更常见的印欧语词在英语中由 queen/quean 代表。在一些语言中,“女人”的词也用于表示“妻子”。wife 的一些提议的原始印欧语词根包括 *weip- “扭转,转动,包裹”,可能带有“蒙面人”的意思(参见 vibrate); 最近还有一个提议的词根 *ghwibh-,意为“羞耻”,也是“阴部”的意思,但它的唯一例子是日耳曼语词和托卡里亚语(一种已失传的中亚印欧语言)kwipe, kip “女性阴部”。
“女性配偶”的现代意义起源于古英语中的一种专门意义; “女人”的一般意义在 midwife, old wives' tale 等中得以保留。中古英语中“家庭女主人”的意义在 housewife 中保留下来; 后来的“地位低微的女商人”的限定意义在 fishwife 中保留。从1883年开始,“同性恋伴侣中的被动伴侣”。Wife-swapping 可追溯到1954年。
Middle English wif, from Old English wīf; akin to Old High German wīb wife and probably to Tocharian B kwīpe female pudenda
The first known use of wife was before the 12th century
wifenoun
dialect woman sense 1
a female partner in a marriage
1 “Shelly was Dusty’s second or third wife, after Jasper Jr.’s mother,” he said.
2 “I’m usually home by six and my wife has supper on the table. You had any supper?”
3 "Moon is no egg. Moon is god, woman wife of sun. It is known."
4 His wife is in labour.
他的夫人正在分娩.
5 The next afternoon his wife appears, a tousled little woman with anxious, quick eyes like a bird, in a sort of black crinkly mantilla with ribbons; heaven knows where she inherited the thing.
6 “None that would own me, sir. Mr. Reed is dead, and his wife cast me off.”
7 His wife’s eyes fluttered, but she said nothing.
8 I found,as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be,first and foremost, conversational partners,but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.
与Hacker几年前发现的一样,我发现多数做妻子的都期望丈夫首先是自己的交谈伙伴。但是很少有丈夫对妻子抱有同样的期望。
9 “And batteries. Got a very large collection of batteries. My wife thinks I’m mad, but there you are.”
10 “Maybe I could be folding towels when he comes in. He’ll think I’m so clever. I’ll get to them before his wife does.”
11 He was pretending not to know that his wife was so nearby.
12 But I for sure knew, and it was my own grandfather’s wife I was hankering after, which seemed like an awful sin.
13 It was an old speller—probably the one Weylin’s first wife had been taught from.
14 Branwell is the product of a first wife; I am the product of a second.
15 If she’d decided to stay but still refused to be his wife, maybe he was pouting.
16 And he still wishes he could have a wife and family of his own.
17 Mr. appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife.
柯林斯先生娶到了这样一位太太真是福气.
18 The one that had left the county appraiser’s wife in a tizzy.
19 She ran across town, knowing the physician would relish every moment of Hassan’s wife begging for his life.
20 His wife had really not anticipated a row of this character.
他太太确实没有料到会有这一场争吵.
1 夫人
Sra. lady dame madame madam donna missus ladyship signora Frau Madonna milady memsahib marm senhora senora Mrs. Hg yessum mistress duchess mam matron ma'am begum bai 'm shrimati Mesdames Devi My Lady Mrs Her Grace her ladyship your ladyship His Grace Your Grace Madame
2 妇
3 妇女
female feminine feme wahine woman bag daughter lady baggage pussy duchess heifer petticoat womanhood bimbo
7 太太
Sra. lady ma dame madame madam missus signora goodwife Madonna milady memsahib senhora senora Mrs. Mrs Madame ma'am begum tante 'm Sra Frau missis wifie vrouw plural wife the lady of the house goody ma'ma My Lady
8 妻
marital woman rib Gill femme Frau bedmate frow feme one's better half better half consort spouse seraglio frau vahine bedfellow