英汉词典

wife 基本解释

• n. 妻子，已婚妇女；夫人

wife 词态变化

wife 中文词源

来自古英语wif,女人，女士，妻子，来自Proto-Germanic*wiban,可能来自PIE*webh,弯，转，纺织，词源同weave,web。引申义男耕女织，女人，妻子。

wife 英文词源

wife

wife: [OE] Wife originally meant simply ‘woman’, but the semantic restriction to ‘married woman’ began in the Old English period and has become more and more firmly established as the centuries have passed. Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib has largely been replaced by frau, and Dutch wijf, Swedish vif, and Danish viv are no longer front-line words. It is not known what its ultimate source was. A woman is etymologically a ‘wife-man’, that is, a ‘womanperson’, a ‘female-person’.

wife (n.)

Old English wif (neuter) "woman, female, lady," also, but not especially, "wife," from Proto-Germanic *wiban (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian wif, Old Norse vif, Danish and Swedish viv, Middle Dutch, Dutch wijf, Old High German wib, German Weib), of uncertain origin, not found in Gothic.

Apparently felt as inadequate in its basic sense, leading to the more distinctive formation wifman (source of woman). Dutch wijf now means, in slang, "girl, babe," having softened somewhat from earlier sense of "bitch." German cognate Weib also tends to be slighting or derogatory and has been displaced by Frau.

The more usual Indo-European word is represented in English by queen/quean. Words for "woman" also double for "wife" in some languages. Some proposed PIE roots for wife include *weip- "to twist, turn, wrap," perhaps with sense of "veiled person" (see vibrate); and more recently *ghwibh-, a proposed root meaning "shame," also "pudenda," but the only examples of it would be the Germanic words and Tocharian (a lost IE language of central Asia) kwipe, kip "female pudenda."

The modern sense of "female spouse" began as a specialized sense in Old English; the general sense of "woman" is preserved in midwife, old wives' tale, etc. Middle English sense of "mistress of a household" survives in housewife; and the later restricted sense of "tradeswoman of humble rank" in fishwife. By 1883 as "passive partner in a homosexual couple." Wife-swapping is attested from 1954.

wife 词组搭配

wife 英文释义

1. a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

wife 双语例句

1. Husband and wife are now taxed separately on their incomes.

现在夫妻双方分别按各自的收入纳税。

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2. He vowed to wreak vengeance on his unfaithful, thieving wife.

他发誓要报复对自己不忠、爱偷东西的妻子。

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3. His wife wasn't feeling too well and she wanted to go home.

他的妻子感到有些不舒服，想要回家。

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4. His wife Cheryl said she had no worries about his health.

他的妻子谢里尔说她并不担心他的健康。

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5. He had been invited to sup with a colleague and his wife.

他已经受邀和一位同事及其夫人共进晚餐。

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wife 实用场景例句

the doctor's wife

医生的太太

牛津词典

She's his second wife.

她是他的第二任妻子。

牛津词典

an increase in the number of working wives

已婚职业妇女人数的增加

牛津词典

He married his wife Jane 37 years ago...

他37年前娶了妻子简。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The woman was the wife of a film director.

这个女人是一个电影导演的妻子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Application Engineer, currently base in Intel APAC R & D Center in Shanghai, China.

应用工程师, 目前在位于中国上海的英特尔亚太 研发 中心工作.

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That face called up in his mind the image of his end wife.

那张脸使他想起了他亡妻的形象.

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He treats his wife like a thrall.

他把妻子当作奴隶看待.

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" Go and join the army,'said his wife. " I won't hinder you. "

“ 去参军吧, ” 他妻子说: “ 我不会阻拦你的. ”

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He left a wife and two children.

他遗下一妻二子.

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He called out for his wife.

他大声呼叫他的妻子.

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We went down town to do some Christmas shopping and all the world and his wife were there.

我们去市里购买圣诞用品,那里人山人海.

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He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.

他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作.

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My wife has many eccentricities.

我妻子有很多怪癖.

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She is a faithful wife.

她是个忠实的妻子.

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When he got married, Alf was too embarrassessed to say anything to his wife about his job.

在阿尔弗结婚时, 因为怕难堪,他对妻子只字不提有关自己职业的事.

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His wife is very useful at cooking.

他的妻子擅长烹调.

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His affections were turned from his wife.

他对妻子的感情转移了.

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He was most insulting to my wife.

他对我的妻子非常粗野无礼.

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He'll go to great lengths to get his child back from his former wife.

不管花多大力气,他都要把孩子从前妻那里要回来.

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He left his wife and children behind.

他抛下了妻子儿女.

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He has been desolate since his wife died.

自从妻子去世后,他一直很孤独.

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I feel chained down with a wife, a house and children.

我觉得受妻子 、 家室之累.

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My wife had laryngitis and lost her voice for several days.

我妻子患喉炎,噪子哑了好几天了.

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Shortly after they became man and wife Tom began to show the cloven foot.

他们结婚不久汤姆便露出了他的凶恶本性.

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He took an heiress to wife and was regarded with suspicion by her family.

他娶了个女继承人为妻子,女方家庭对他的结婚动机抱有怀疑态度.

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She is a good girl, and will make a hardworking, devoted wife.

她是一个好姑娘, 将来会成为一个勤劳忠贞的贤内助.

《现代汉英综合大词典》