widowhood

noun

1. 寡居（期）；鳏居（期）
   the state or period of being a widow or widower

1. N-UNCOUNT 寡居;守寡
   Widowhood is the state of being a widow or widower, or the period of time during which someone is a widow or widower.
   1. Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
      守寡的打击和悲伤让人难以承受。

1. Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
   守寡的打击和悲伤让人难以承受。
2. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
   她们如同寡妇被禁，直到死的日子。
3. This leaves them economically vulnerable when divorce or widowhood strikes.
   当遭遇离婚或寡居时，这将使她们在经济上非常脆弱。
4. And so I suddenly realized two very simple things: First, the widowhood effect was not restricted to husbands and wives.
   我也因此突然意识到了两件很简单的事情。首先，寡妇效应不仅仅局限于丈夫和妻子之间。
5. Widowhood and the grief of others attracted him, because of his great gentleness;
   由于他的性格非常温和，别人丧偶和其他不幸的事都是他所关心的。
6. Objective To study the subjective well being and depression of widows/ widowers in an aging apartment. Gender Analysis of Widowhood and Remarriage among Oldest Old in China
   目的研究老年公寓和社区中丧偶老人主观幸福感、抑郁情绪及影响因素。中国高龄老人丧偶和再婚的性别分析
7. Her statement confirmed her widowhood even as it erected a barrier against unwanted male attention.
   她表明自己寡妇的身份，正好树起一道屏障以抵挡那些讨厌的男人的关注。
8. Her mother was living in deep retirement, wallowing in widowhood.
   她母亲深居简出，沉浸在寡居生活的愁绪之中。
9. Her early widowhood condemned her to lead a life of hardship.
   她的早寡注定了她要过困苦的生活。
10. If she has dared to marry in my absence, she'll be like to know the pleasures of widowhood before she is twenty!
    要是她胆敢在我不在的时候嫁了人，那就是她存心要在不到二十岁时尝尝做寡妇的滋味！
11. When did this fleeing woman who had maintained a chaste widowhood find a husband? ( 4)
    这守活寡的逃妇几时有了个新老公？（四）
12. Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age. They are even less likely to be widowed all in all, less likely to end up alone.
    守寡使她不得不过着孤独的晚年生活。总的说来，她们甚至较不可能守寡，较不能孤家寡人一个。
13. She continued to worship his memory throughout her long widowhood.
    她在漫长的孀居期间继续以崇敬的心情怀念他。
14. Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood.
    哪知丧子、寡居这两件17事，在一日转眼之间必18临到你。
15. Gender Analysis of Widowhood and Remarriage among Oldest Old in China
    中国高龄老人丧偶和再婚的性别分析
16. Some commentators argue her appeal stems from national sympathy for her widowhood.
    有些评论人士认为，索尼娅的吸引力来自全国民众对她遗孀身份的同情。
17. Her early widowhood condemned her to lead a life of hardship. The rigors of that lonely land need no further description.
    她的早寡注定了她要过困苦的生活。生活在那个穷乡僻壤的困苦是无庸赘言的。
18. She no longer anxiously reckoned the weeks and the months of her widowhood.
    她不再焦灼不安地计算她守寡守了有多少周多少月了。
19. His superiority however arose from the fact that he was a maestro at the widowhood method and held the reputation of being one of the first to use it in Belgium.
    他的权威来自这样一个事实，那就是他是个使用寡居法的大师，并且在比利时享有使用寡居方法第一人的名声。
20. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
    你必忘记幼年的羞愧，不再记念你寡居的羞辱。
21. But to scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.
    但是，对于刚刚从寡妇蛰居中跑出来的思嘉来说，战争只不过是一个愉快和兴奋的时候而已。
22. The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keep up a wife's spirits.
    静居守寡的那种优悠自得的境地，就是使太太精神振作的唯一希望。

noun

1. the state of being a widow who has not remarried

2. the time of a woman's life when she is a widow