- a married man considered in relation to his wife（丈）夫：
she and her husband are both retired.
她和丈夫都退休了。
with obj.
- use (resources) economically节约使用（资源）：
the need to husband his remaining strength.
保养他剩余体力的需要。
派生词
husbander
noun （rare 〈罕〉）husbandhood
nounhusbandless
adjectivehusbandly
adjective词源
late Old English （in the senses 'male head of a household' and 'manager, steward'）, from Old Norse húsbóndi 'master of a house', from hús 'house'+bóndi 'occupier and tiller of the soil'. The original sense of the verb was 'till, cultivate'.