wife 核心詞議:
n. 妻子;老婆
wife 基本解釋
速記方法
速記技巧
諧音記憶法
吾愛夫=深愛丈夫的是他的妻子。
詞源記憶法
英語單詞wife現在一般用來表示“妻子”,但在古代,它的本意是woman(婦女)。在一些由它構成的復合詞中我們還能看到它的這種含義,如midwife(產婆)、alewife(啤酒店老板娘)、housewife(家庭主婦)、fishwife(賣魚婦)等。并且,單詞woman本身就是由wife+man構成的,原本拼寫為wifman。“妻子”之意原本是wife的一個特殊含義,在現代英語中反而成為了它的主要含義。
知識擴展
單詞用法
wife的意思是“妻子”,指相對于丈夫而言的女人。
give sb to wife表示“嫁給某人為妻”,take(have〕sb to wife表示“娶某人為妻”“娶妻”也可用marry a wife。
單詞擴展
wives是wife的復數形式.
重要短語
husband and wife 夫妻
good wife 好太太,賢內助
wife and children 妻兒
second wife 第二任妻子
wife 變化形式
復數: wives
易混淆的單詞: WIFE
中文詞源:
wife 妻子
來自古英語wif,女人,女士,妻子,來自Proto-Germanic*wiban,可能來自PIE*webh,彎,轉,紡織,詞源同weave,web。引申義男耕女織,女人,妻子。
wife
精選例句
1、 A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.
一個政治家讀他最近成功的公眾集會的記錄,不是為了它延遲的回報,而是像他的妻子讀一個政黨的記錄一樣。[機器翻譯,如有錯誤,感謝糾錯]
2、 As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.
當我快到23英里時,我看到我的妻子在揮舞著一個標志。[機器翻譯,如有錯誤,感謝糾錯]
1、 But a new study finds that the risk of divorce among older couples rises when the wife-not the husband—becomes seriously ill.
但一項新的研究發現,當妻子(而不是丈夫)病重時,老年夫婦離婚的風險會上升。
1、 In 2009, he and his wife Laura launched Maple Hill Creamery, an organic, all grass-fed yogurt company in northern New York.
2009年,他和妻子勞拉在紐約北部創辦了楓樹山乳品公司,這是一家全草飼有機酸奶公司。
1、 He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.
他甚至不能把這些秘密告訴他的妻子,盡管它們為他的小說提供了未經承認的基礎。
常見考點例句:
- Have you met his wife ?
- 你見過他的妻子嗎?
- His wife then asked me .
- 他的妻子然后問我。
- He made his wife happy .
- 他帶給他妻子快樂。
- I finally told my wife .
- 最終我向妻子坦白。
- My wife is very gentle .
- 我的妻子非常溫柔。