音标:[waɪf] ;
wife
[waif]
n.
女人,妇人[仍用于复合词midwife,housewife等中]
妻子;夫人;已婚妇女
[俚语]同性恋伙伴关系中的被动方
喜爱的妓女,(特指)妓院老板喜爱的妓女
vi., vt.
[罕用语]= wive
短语:
all the world and his wife
见 world
bachelor's wife
[罕用语]
独身者理想中的妻子
人尽可夫的女人;妓女
Caesar's wife must (或 ought to) be above suspicion.
[谚语]恺撒之妻不应被人怀疑;跟伟大人物有关的人必须洁身自爱。
child wife
很年轻的妻子
common-law wife
姘头;未经正式结婚仪式与男方同居的女人
Dutch wife
竹夫人(盛行于前荷属东印度群岛的长筒形抱枕)
have (或 take) someone to wife
娶某人为妻
left-hand (或 left-handed) wife
嫁给贵族的非贵族女子
比丈夫身分低微的女子
[俚语]小老婆[亦作 wife of the left hand]
old wife
老妇
饶舌的老太婆;好搬弄是非的人
老太婆脾气的男人
The shoemaker's wife often goes in ragged shoes.
[谚语]鞋匠的老婆没鞋穿。
There is one good wife in the country and every man thinks he has her.
[谚语]老婆是自己的好。
wife of the left hand
出身低贱的妻子
wife out of Westminster
可疑的妻子
wife's equity
【法律】妻子在平衡法中的权利
变形:
n.
wives

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4-(1-naphthylazo)-1-naphthylamine
adjure
adjuvant peptide
albite-anorthite series
alienness
ancillary power supply
Angostura, Presa de la
as the spark fly upward
atomic building
average error rate
B-Y amplifier
Ball's operation
Baranov, Alieksandr Andreyevich
battement frapp? double
big spoon
boiler master
bombasting
brown asbestos
built in beam
cage housing
carinoma
conditional breakpoint
congroid
consul r.
consultive committee international telegraph and telephone
controller mechanism
cricothyroid branch
dialeuropora decempuncta
dioptroscope
direct probability
distributor drive
drimeter
eccentric circular screen
electrodissolver
export capability
false mildews
family elephantidaes
follicetum
galleryful
GDNT
gear mark
granther
grement
hadot
harishes
hybrid-base oil
hyperplastic tuberculosis of small intestine
ice melting equivalent
indicated market
inswamp
irresignation
Jurisdiction of Ship Arrested
keep the faith
Klimontów
ko'dest
last clear chance
legwarmer
leukocyte extract
Lorentz resistance measurement
luminophor(e)
machine plotting
Maneromango
Margate fishes
margo falciformis hiatus spahenus
mcgeady
mermaid's tresses
monometrosis
mont cervin
multigap head
mus minutoides
mussing
Nervus intermedius
panegyrically
perlite products
plastify
prochromosome (rosenbery 1904)
Qal'eh-ye Panjeh
rabbit-fur
rachicele
rained off
rate of transition curve
ravdin
real-time operation software
receive sequence
receiver retrace trigger
restricted-use volume
Retz
rig pig
sash spring
scratchin
set abstraction
sits out
slap bellies
small-signal open-circuit output admittance
somatic sign
stainabilities
summer time
synthetic metal
theory that philosophy may replace science
Thermaïkos Kolpos
unbalance in foreign trade
ziphoide