Widow

(noun.) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried.

(verb.) cause to be without a spouse; 'The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia'.

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• I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• What became of Captain Osborne's widow? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It proved to be a well-known and respected widow of the neighbourhood, of a standing which can only be expressed by the word genteel. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I was lodging with a comical old widow, who had formerly been my sister Fanny's nurse when she was quite a child. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• She's well to do now, and a widow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I am sorry to grieve you, pursued the widow; but you are so young, and so little acquainted with men, I wished to put you on your guard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His admiration of the widow increased as she spoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He drove his curricle; he drank his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian stories, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a maidservant, and a journeyman who attended the warehouse, but lodged abroad. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• At all events, Tom kicked the very tall man out at the front door half an hour later, and married the widow a month after. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Some widows can guard against the wounds their children give them by turning their hearts to another husband and beginning life again. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The splendid opening of the story of Islam collapses suddenly into this squalid dispute and bickering of heirs and widows. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Oh, governesses--or widows. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They reached the cottage where Susan's widowed mother lived. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• If I ever get to heaven it won't be for being a good son to a widowed mother; I say no more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• All his widowed mother could spare had been spent in qualifying him for his profession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The stars came out, shedding their ineffectual glimmerings on the light-widowed earth. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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