widows是什么意思？

widows

• n. 寡妇，遗孀( widow的名词复数 )；

例句

• Widows were forbidden to remarry and were stoned to death if they did. 过去寡妇是不允许重新嫁人的，否则，就要被乱石砸死。
• Even elderly widows and widowers choose to live on their own. 连年迈的寡妇和鳏夫都选择独自生活.
• They are financiers who spoiled widows of their money. 他们是掠夺寡妇钱财的金融家.
• We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows. 我们是无父的孤儿.我们的母亲好像寡妇.
• We are and fatherless , our mothers are as widows. 3我们是无父的孤儿; 我们的母亲好象寡妇.
• My grandmothers are both widows. 我奶奶和外婆都是孤寡一人。
• ...widows and fatherless children... 孤儿寡母
• Widows seem to experience more distress than do widowers. 寡妇似乎比鳏夫更痛苦。
• He figured out that you're lonely, like most widows, and he turned on the charm. 他看出你和大多数寡妇一样很寂寞，所以就拿出他的魅力来了。

英语四级真题

The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers (鳏夫) were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  寡妇;遗孀
  A widow is a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again.