The Stepford WivesStep·ford Wives, The /ˌstepfəd ˈwaɪvz $ -fərd-/ a horror film, based on a book by Ira Levin, about a group of married women in a US village whose husbands secretly replace them with robots. The robots look exactly like the women, but they are designed to be interested only in cooking, cleaning their houses, and pleasing their husbands in every way. The phrase is sometimes used to describe women who behave in this way. 《复制娇妻》〔恐怖电影名,讲述美国某小镇上一群丈夫以机器人替换妻子的故事;该短语有时用于形容对丈夫百依百顺的女人〕