So, an empty nester is a parent whose children have grown up and left home.

因此，巢是指自家孩子已经长大离家的父母。

Some parents may feel sad or lost when they become empty nesters.

当一些父母成为巢时，他们可能会感到难过或失落。

Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest. They have become empty nesters.

现在这些父母们孤独生活，的巢穴没有孩子，他们就成了巢。

Now, an empty nester, you write with the door open.

现在，作为一名巢家长，你敞门写作。

And can I just start by saying, I freaking hate that term, empty nester.

而且我可以先说一句，我特么“巢父母”这个说法。

We bonded over the experience and now we're empty nesters.

我们因为这段经历而产生了共鸣，现在我们都成了巢父母。

Cities became cool places for young people and empty nesters to live.

城市变成了年轻和巢居住的时尚之地。

And so now you're an empty nester too, which not as much congratulations.

所以现在你也成了巢，这并不值得太多祝贺。

We always date on Friday, sometime even Tuesday, because we're empty nesters.

我们总是在周五约会，有时甚至周二也约会，因为我们现在是巢了。

Boris, I read something, you guys are empty nesters, right?

Boris，我看到一些东西，你们已经是巢家庭了，对吧？

Now that we're empty nesters, it's like, well, what are we gonna talk about?

既然我们成了巢，就像是在问，好吧，我们还能聊些什么呢？

You're maybe empty nesters or whatever it is.

你可能是巢, 或者不管是什么。

And our youngest went off to college in the fall, so that means we're empty nesters.

- 我们最小的孩子去年秋天上了大学，所以这意味着我们成了巢。

Some of them are empty nesters.

其中一些是巢。

Ground nesters, just a bit of unmowed meadow, cavity nesters, a few dead trees left standing.

地面筑巢者，只需一小片未修剪的草地；洞穴筑巢者，保留几棵枯树即可。

Strangely though, Chad described Lori as an empty nester whose daughter had died a year previous.

奇怪的是，查德形容洛莉是一个孩子已经离家的巢，而她的女儿早在一年前就去世了。

So as of two months ago, yay, I have become an empty nester, and I'm so excited.

所以从两个月前始，是的，我成了一个巢， 我很兴奋。

Yeah, which I think also tracks with the evidence on spikes in happiness when people become empty nesters.

是的，我认为这也符合关于巢期们幸福感激增的证据。

Her brother is still in the military, and her parents are in their first year of being empty nesters.

她的哥哥还在服兵役，她的父母是巢的第一年。

I love working, and I don't mean that in a way like, trust me, I'm also a very good nester.

我喜欢工作，但并不是说，相信我，我也是个很会居家过日子的。