【wife音标】 英[waɪf] 美[waɪf]
【单词释义】 wife是什么意思：
n.妻子，太太；夫人，老婆；已婚妇女
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] wives
【wife形近词/近似词】
housewife n.家庭主妇
life n.生活；生命；一生；人生
knife n.刀 v.切割；(用刀)伤害
wildlife n.[U]野生动物
rife adj.普遍的；流行的；盛传的
【单词例句】
◇ Medea,daughter of king Aeetes,was wounded by Eros' arrows,took Jason's part in recovering the golden fleece and eventually became the hero's wife.
美狄亚，国王埃厄忒斯的女儿，被厄洛斯的神箭射中，和伊阿宋一起寻觅金羊毛,最后成为这位英雄的妻子。
---- Eros(Cupid)
◇ There was once a king who had three sons of marriageable age In order to avoid any dispute over their choice of three brides, he said, "Aim as far as you can with the sling There where the stone falls you will get your wife."
从前，有一个国王，他的三个儿子都到了娶妻的年龄了。为了不让三个王子在挑选新娘的时候发生争斗，国王对他们说：“你们用投石器尽力向远处拋石头，石头落在哪里，你们就娶哪里的姑娘为妻。”
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ When he arrived home, his wife came up to him and said, "Miller, tell me, where did all the wealth come from that is suddenly in our house? All at once all the chests and boxes are full, and no one brought it here, and I don't know where it came from."
磨房主回到家中，妻子迎出来对他说：“快告诉我，咱们家这些财富突然从甚么地方来的？家里所有的箱笼一下子全被装满了，又没人来过，到底是怎么回事呀？”
---- The Girl without Hands (I)
◇ The king finally came back home from the battlefield, and the first thing he wanted to do was to see his wife and their child.
国王终于从战场归来了，他的第一个愿望就是看看他的妻子和儿子。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ Finally his wife gave him hope for another child, and when it came into the world it was indeed a girl.
最后，他的妻子给了他另一个希望，当这个孩子来到这个世界上时，确实是个女孩。
---- The Seven Ravens
◇ While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband. “I really love you, but I really can’t carry on anymore, I’m sorry.”
当他们签署文件时，老夫人遗憾地告诉丈夫：“我真的很爱你，但我再也不能忍受下去了，我非常抱歉。”
---- Life Together
◇ I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.
我已为人妻，又作了人母，应该称作妇人了。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ In fact, the aversion touched many cultures, from the long-standing taboo in Islamic countries against eating and drinking with one's left hand, to the expectation in ancient Japan that any wife who didn't favor her right could be legally divorced on the spot, no questions asked.
事实上，古人对左手的厌恶跨越多国文化，从伊斯兰国家长久以来对于用左手吃喝的禁忌，到日本古代不爱用右手的妻子可能会当场被休，合理合法，连质询都不需要。
---- Why are wedding rings worn on the left hand?
◇ Everybody looked at her feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to her as if the old figures on the tombs, those portraits of old preachers and preachers' wives, with stiff ruffs, and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes.
所有的人都在望着她的那双脚。当她在教堂里走向那个圣诗歌唱班门口的时候，她就觉得好像那些墓石上的雕像，那些戴着硬领和穿着黑长袍的牧师，以及他们的太太的画像都在盯着她的一双红鞋。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
结果，他只好回家来，心中很不快活，因为他是那么渴望着得到一位真正的公主。
---- The Real Princess