- 1n/waɪf/妻子 / 太太
A woman who is married to a man.
「wife」是「一個男人結了婚的女人」，也就是太太。複數要把 f 改成 ves，變成 wives。和 husband（丈夫）是一對。中文常說「太太」「老婆」「妻子」，看場合選用。
示範例句 · Example
Have you met my wife? Her name is Lily.
中文翻譯你見過我太太嗎？她叫莉莉。
core核心畫面
From the word’s history
From Old English wīf 'woman, wife', from Proto-Germanic *wībą.
源自古英文 wīf，當時同時指「女人」和「妻子」。
A single, clear picture: the woman a man is married to. There is only one sense here, so the word simply names that relationship.
可以想成一個單純清楚的畫面：一個男人結了婚，他的另一半就是他的 wife。這個字只有一個意思，就是直接點名這層婚姻關係裡的那位女性。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
wifenoun/wæf/
- 1
A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
- The Fisherman and His Wife
- And I geue vnto the ſame Elizabeth my wif the ſparuers and hangings of the ſame twoo beddes vſuallye occupied, and hanging ouer and about the ſame twoo beddes[…]
- 2
The female of a pair of mated animals.
- A new wife for the gander is introduced into the pen.
- I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives. I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.
- 3
Synonym of woman.
wifeverb/wæf/
- 1
To marry (a woman).
- Mentally scarred for life, love is war / And some chicks are just too hard to wife
- Mecca knew she wasn't lying. She had the type of beauty that made niggas want to wife her.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。