【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】
knife n.刀 v.切割；(用刀)伤害
wildlife n.[U]野生动物
housewife n.家庭主妇
rife adj.普遍的；流行的；盛传的
life n.生活；生命；一生；人生
【单词例句】
◇ Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife.
大清早，有一个农民在这儿经过。他看到了这只小鸭，就走过去用木屐把冰块锤破，然后把它抱回家，送给他的妻子。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ "Darling Marguerite daisy,"he said to her, "you are the wisest woman of all the flowers. Pray tell me which of the flowers I shall choose for my wife. Which will be my bride? When I know, I will fly directly to her, and propose."
“亲爱的玛加丽特雏菊！”他说，“你是一切花中最聪明的女人。你会作出预言！我请求你告诉我，我应该娶这一位呢，还是娶那一位？我到底会得到哪一位呢？如果我知道的话，就可以直接向她飞去，向她求婚。”
---- The Butterfly
◇ One day the king said to his wife, "If our thirteenth child, which you are soon going to bring into the world, is a girl, then the twelve others shall die, so that her wealth may be great, and so that she alone may inherit the kingdom."
一天，国王对王后说：“你快要生第十三个孩子了。要是这个孩子是个女孩，我就下令杀掉那十二个男孩，好让她得到更多的财产，并且让她继承王位。”
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ When his wife rang him up to declare her divorce alarm, he was still scanning a digital counter to check the data so as to give an assessment of the theoretical framework for a biochemical weapon. His junior staff's sympathy made him feel embarrassed.
当他的妻子打来电话宣布和他离婚的警告时，他还在查看一台数码计数器核对数据，以对一种生物化学武器的理论框架做出评估。他的下级职员表现出的同情使他很尴尬。
---- Happy Marriage Needs Fighting For
◇ After the wedding, my cousin and his wife went to the United Kingdom for nationwide sightseeing.
我的表弟和他妻子在举办了婚礼后到英国做全国旅游观光去了。
---- Sightseeing in the United Kingdom
◇ 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
◇ 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
◇ 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?
◇ 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
◇ 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