| 词汇 | empty-nester |
| 释义 | empty nester noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈemp.ti ˌnes.tər/ us /ˈemp.ti ˌnes.tɚ/ someone whose children have grown up and no longer live at home（子女长大离家的）空巢老人 Parents & children baby mama babyhood babymoon bastard brat guardianship identical twin illegitimacy illegitimately parent parentage parental parentally parenthood step-parent the generation gap triplet tug of love twin without issueidiom empty nester | Business Englishempty nester noun[ C,usually plural ] ukus(alsonester) a person whose adult children have left home: Cruise companies tend to cater to empty nesters who finally have both the time and the money to travel the world. Examples of empty nesterempty nester Do those who marry out of college marry for the same reason as the emptynester divorcees do? From Huffington Post The discriminatory anti-marriage penalties are particularly severe on middle-class "emptynester" couples. From Heritage.org That group includes "emptynester" couples who move downtown after raising children, a demographic found in most revitalized downtowns. From NOLA.com You may switch careers, become single or an emptynester, or move. From Huffington Post The young want them for affordability, the empty nesters because they are tired of tending to large homes filled with rooms they never go in. From USA TODAY Now he was in the home of empty nesters who doted on him. From Huffington Post You have all these young people and empty nesters moving in. From Philly.com Some had been empty nesters less than two months, while others had been so for as many as five years. From Slate Magazine Now, as we move towards being empty nesters, a small place with access to transportation and services is a lot more attractive to us. From TIME They suggest demolishing the eastern end to make way for residential development, most likely townhouses and apartment-style buildings for empty nesters, seniors and young households. From Chicago Daily Herald No one told the empty nesters the boys had severe mental health issues and had bounced between foster homes. From Huffington Post The cost of housing in a neighborhood mattered almost twice as much to 18- to 24-year-olds as to empty nesters. From Dallas Morning News Most boomers live in the suburbs and are expected to remain in the homes where they raised their children even after they become empty nesters. From CBS News It's great for empty nesters! From The Atlantic Are they empty nesters' spare rooms? From San Francisco Chronicle 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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