wife是什么意思_wife怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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 Of the word’s Germanic relatives, German weib has largely been replaced by frau, and Dutch wijf, Swedish vif, and Danish viv are no longer front-line words.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.

词态变化

复数 wives;

权威造句

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

近反义词

spouse 配偶

mate 配偶

bride 新娘

married woman 有夫之妇

partner 伙伴

significant other 配偶

companion 同伴

consort <正式>（君王的）配偶...

helpmeet 合作者

female 女性的

married 已婚的

woman 妇女

相似短语

surrogate wife (性治疗中)太太的替身

take to wife 【法】娶为妻

rights of wife 【法】妻的权利

old wife 老妇人,长舌妇

wife cake 老婆饼

starter wife 头号前妻【名】坚忍的已婚女性，心甘情愿地全力支持丈夫度过消沉岁月，在丈夫事业有成时被更年轻或有名的新侣伴代替。n. 糟糠之妻，结发妻子

wife allowance 【法】妻子扶养权

wife and husband 妻子和丈夫

estranged wife 已分居但尚未离婚之妻

husband and wife 夫妇 ,夫妻

单词分析

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记忆方法

妻子 wife 我爱妇(我爱的妇人)
2. wife 妻子 -我爱夫、我爱抚。
3. wife 妻子 -我夫----我的夫人。

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