| 词汇 | wives |
| 释义 | wives uk /waɪvz/ us /waɪvz/ plural ofwife（wife的复数） wives | American Dictionarywives us/wɑɪvz/ pl of wife Examples of wiveswives They were sufficiently comfortable that the leprosarium was theirs to send their wives and children to the place. Whenever the men were not speaking, their wives handled the necessary business between the families through letters and visits. They were asked a series of questions about their work and family histories ; 53 of their wives also took part. In the smaller karkhanas, owners, their wives and their children continued to do weaving and other tasks alongside hired labour. Citizens' wives and daughters were far more likely to be the subjects of petitions and pleas for mercy than were marginal women and outsiders. Most of the earliest bishops' wives were uncommemorated after death. Although formally the dowry remained in the complete control of wives, husbands apparently relied on these dowries as available credit. Childless wives are therefore likely to underestimate the possible disadvantages of their position. Firstly 56 per cent (157) of the husbands denied their credit to wives who had eloped. While not denying that they had confined their wives, they downplayed its significance. Husbands and wives generally retain separate budgets, with the husbands contributing to the maintenance of the children but only covering a part of their costs. Wives made active claims on their incomes for domestic maintenance, so that such contributions came to be seen as less and less discretionary. The gender divide within marriages is shown by more husbands than wives receiving expressive or instrumental support from their spouse. Another 22 % said friends or relatives, excluding wives, had advised them. The households we analysed were populated only by: husbands, wives, lone parents, people living alone, or children under 19 years old. See all examples of wives These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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