widowhood

常見(jiàn)例句

Talking about the book made it easier to talkabout her widowhood and, when she was ready, her 9/11 story.
談起這本書(shū)，會(huì)讓她更容易講出自己守寡的日子。儅她樂(lè)意時(shí)，還可以講講她的9/11故事。
More than 30 years of widowhood were spent campaigning nationally for preservation and conservation of the landscape and wild flowers.
30多年的寡婦生涯中，她都在爲(wèi)保存土地和保護(hù)野花做全國(guó)範(fàn)圍的宣傳活動(dòng)。
If we incautiously interpret these numbers as causal – in fact they are merely correlations – then we could conclude that 20 years of marriage is compensation for up to 40 years of widowhood.
如果我們不那麼謹(jǐn)慎，將這些數(shù)字解讀成因果關(guān)系——事實(shí)上它們衹是具有相關(guān)性——那麼可能會(huì)得出下述結(jié)論：即，20年的婚姻足以補(bǔ)償至多40年的喪偶經(jīng)歷。

So the average age at widowhood for black and Hispanic women is 54.
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Her widowhood was long, after Richard was killed in a car accident in 1975, but she never thought of replacing him.
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Because women have longer life expectancies and often marry men several years older than themselves, periods of widowhood of 15 years or longer are not uncommon.
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