单词 | empty nest |
释义 | empty nestempty nest (also empty nest syndrome)LEAVE A PLACE a situation in which parents become sad because their children have grown up and moved out of their house 空巢(综合征)〔指父母因子女长大离家而难过〕 Examples from the Corpus empty nest• I am swimming away from my friends' deaths, from depression and an empty nest.• Many women enjoy an empty nest.• There will be no empty nest, no shedding of familial responsibilities and expense.• No one ever told me either that a stepmother could suffer so badly from empty nest syndrome. → empty nest at empty1(4) |
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