| 释义 |
widow/ˈwidəʊ/ n. & v.●n. 1 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again 寡妇 2 a woman whose husband is often away on a specified activity 活寡妇(指因丈夫沉溺于某种爱好而被经常弃留家中的女人) golf widow 高尔夫球活寡妇 3 extra cards dealt separately and taken by the highest bidder 守寡牌(牌戏中留在桌面供叫牌人使用的牌) 4 Printing the short last line of a paragraph at the top of a page or column 【印刷】上页多出转至下页的短行 ●v. tr. 1 make into a widow or widower 使成寡妇(或鳏夫) 2 (as 作 widowed adj.) bereft by the death of a spouse 丧偶的 my widowed mother 我的寡母 3 (foll. by 后跟 of) deprive of 夺去… [Old English widewe, related to Old High German wituwa, Sanskrit vidhɑˊvɑˉ, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’] |