英:['waɪflaɪk]
美:['waɪfˌlaɪk]
英:['waɪflaɪk]
美:['waɪfˌlaɪk]
似妻的,适合做妻子的;
似妻地;
adverb
in a wifely manner
adjective
wifely
The first known use of wifelike was in 1587
1 Then he became ill and she began taking over his finances — a bit too wifelike for him.
2 She, with “wifelike government,” kept the money, and heartened me to write, and write I did but with awful sufferings and difficulty, and much destruction of sleep.
3 I am delicate about the figures, for Mrs O'D. occasionally reads these sketches, and might feel a wifelike antipathy to a record of this nature.
4 And then, that next afternoon,—that very next afternoon, after she had written all her impulsive, wifelike, loving promises to Jack, what should come but a note from Ray to be delivered privately to her.
5 Sir Lucius and Lady Aphrodite Grafton were indeed on the best possible terms, and the whole county admired his conjugal attentions and her wifelike affections.
6 I have a little pride; Enough to stand up, wifelike, by his side, With the same smile as when I was his bride.
7 And Catherine smiled through the tears that were trembling in her eyes, at the half sad, half playful words; and a wifelike glance of trustfulness told how very dear he was.
8 And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience, as she had practiced it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio's will.
9 Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.
10 And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience as she had practised it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio's will.