单词widowhood
n.: 寡居（期）；鳏居（期）
网络: 守寡；丧偶；寡妇的身分
寡居（期）；鳏居（期）:
the state or period of being a widow or widower
守寡
寡妇的身分;孀居
And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.
犹大就给了她，与她同寝，她就从犹大怀了孕。她玛起来走了，除去帕子，仍旧穿上作寡妇的衣裳。
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。
More than 30 years of widowhood were spent campaigning nationally for preservation and conservation of the landscape and wild flowers.
30多年的寡妇生涯中，她都在为保存土地和保护野花做全国范围的宣传活动。
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps 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惟一希望。
It will inevitably be compared with that other recent memoir of widowhood, Joan Didion"s "The Year of Magical Thinking" .
这必然会被拿来与另一本最近出版的寡妇生活回忆录琼•迪迪恩的《奇年之想》相比较。
Findings on the widowhood effect don"t come as news to medical professionals, who have observed similar patterns of increased mortality.
对于寡居效应的发现对于医务工作者来说并非新闻，他们早已观察了多起相似的案例。
The deepest sorrow in widowhood is not the uncertainty of the future but the loss of a loved mate.
鳏寡的人，他们最大的忧伤不是前途不明朗，是失去挚爱的人。
Laura Henderson: [at her husband"s funeral] I"m bored with widowhood .
萝拉•韩德森：【在她先生的葬礼上】我当寡妇已经当烦了。
So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood .
他们如同寡妇被禁、直到死的日子。
First, the widowhood effect was not restricted to husbands and wives.
首先，是“寡妇效应”不仅仅局限于丈夫和妻子之间。