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单词 widow
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widow

/ˈwɪdəʊ/
1
a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again
寡妇, 遗孀, 孀妇。
1.1
with modifier humorous a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity
〈幽默〉守活寡的女人, 活寡妇(指丈夫经常外出参加某项运动或活动的女人):

my wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years.

因为我沉迷于高尔夫球, 30年来妻子像在守活寡。

2
Printing a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column and considered undesirable
【印刷】未排足的行, 单词行。
3
a widowbird
寡妇鸟。
with obj.[usu. as adj. widowed
make into a widow or widower
使成寡妇, 使成鳏夫:

she had to care for her widowed mother.

她得照顾孀居的母亲。

词源
Old English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning 'be empty'; compare with Sanskrit vidh 'be destitute', Latin viduus 'bereft, widowed', and Greek ēitheos 'unmarried man'.
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