喜樂美語
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    nC2

    /spaʊs/

    A husband or wife — the person someone is married to, especially in formal or official language.

    配偶

    複數 spouses

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Think of the line on an official form that just says 'Spouse: ______'. The form does not want to know whether the person is a husband or a wife — it only needs to know that one legal marriage partner exists. That is the whole feel of the word: the marriage seen from the paperwork side, cool and neutral, rather than from the living-room side.

可以想成表格上那一欄「配偶：______」。表格不在意填進去的是先生還是太太，它只需要知道「婚姻上的另一半」這個位置…更多收起可以想成表格上那一欄「配偶：______」。表格不在意填進去的是先生還是太太，它只需要知道「婚姻上的另一半」這個位置有人。這就是這個字的味道：從法律和文件那一面看婚姻，語氣是中性的、有距離的，而不是日常在家裡會用的稱呼。

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

spousenoun/spaʊ̯s/

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    A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

    • People should treat their spouses with respect.
    • At last such grace I found, and meanes I wrought, / That I that Ladie to my spouse had wonne

spouseverb/spaʊ̯s/

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    datedTo wed; to espouse.

    • Do you stand possess’d Of any proof against the honourableness Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。