妻室 meaning in English
[书面语] wife
Examples
- He has a wife and family to keep .
他有妻室儿女要养活。 - He has married but he has a girl friend on the side .
他虽有妻室,但暗地里还有一个女朋友。 - Our homeland, the lives of our wives and children are at stake .
我们的国土家园,我们的妻室儿女的生命,都在危急中。 - "yes, sir," returned moses, "and i know but of two such markets for wives in europe .
摩西答道,“是的,父亲,在欧洲这种供给妻室的市场,我只知道有两处。 - Word reached the ex-banker-butcher that an unpaid depositor was seriously ill and his wife and children were penniless .
这位开过银行的屠夫听说,有位债主存户身染重病,妻室一贫如洗。