Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.

她举行婚礼之前，母亲曾含蓄地告诉她，结婚是女人必须庄严而坚决地忍受的某种事件，后来她当了寡妇，别的已婚妇女时常悄悄说的些话更加证实了这点，思很高兴，自己在**和结婚方面总算已经过关了。

The most provocative chapter is about widowhood and dating after losing a spouse.

最易引起争论的章是关于失去另半后的寡居生活和约会的经历。

The cruel twist is that one of the Roman boys is married to an enemy girl. Widowhood and orphanhood beckon.

残酷的转折却是名罗马勇士的妻子是敌方的员，成为寡妇或孤儿的命运在向他们召唤。

But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.

但是，对于刚刚从寡妇蛰居跑出来的思来说，战争只不过是个愉快和兴奋的时候而已。

The widowhood effect has been found among men and women of all ages throughout the world.

鳏寡效应在世界各地的各个年龄段的男女都有发。

This paper says the increased likelihood for a recently widowed person to die — often called the widowhood effect — is one of the best documented examples of the effect of social relations on health.

这篇论文说，最近丧偶者死亡的可能性增加——通常称为鳏寡效应——是社交关系对健康影响的最有力的例子之。

And recent longitudinal studies put the excess mortality of widowhood compared with marriage among the elderly between thirty percent and ninety percent in the first three months and around fifteen percent in the months thereafter.

最近的纵向研究显示，与婚姻相比，老年人丧偶的过度死亡率在前三个月为 30% 到 90%，之后的几个月约为 15%。

And the black crepe veil on her bonnet had to reach to her knees, and only after three years of widowhood could it be shortened to shoulder length.

而她帽子上缀着的那幅黑纱必须到垂到膝盖，要到守寡满三年之后才能缩短到肩头的部位。

Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.

她们既未结婚又非守寡，便乐得向那些康复者大举进攻，据思冷眼旁观，于是连那些很不好看的姑娘，也是不难找到订婚对象的了。

So one interesting thing, which is kind of sad is what's called of the widowhood effect.

个有趣但有点悲伤的事情是所谓的“鳏寡效应”。

But in these exciting days her widowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before.

可是在这些激动人心的日子里，她的寡妇身份和母亲身份也不再像以前那样使她感到累赘。

Gavin was there, widowhood hanging off him like a baggy suit.

加文在那里，寡居的状态像件松垮的衣服挂在身上。

Yeah, you're talking about the widowhood effect?

yeah, 你在说鳏寡效应？

'Yes, sir, ' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a kind of social widowhood upon her.

“是的，先生，” 斯巴塞太太回答说， 带着种社交寡妇的气质。

Such a conviction, of course, did little either to mitigate or to abbreviate his widowhood; and it set a limit to his recognition, at the best, of Catherine's possibilities and of Mrs. Penniman's ministrations.

当然，这种信念并没有减轻或缩短他的寡妇生活。这限制了他对凯瑟琳的可能性和彭尼曼夫人的服务充量的认识。

This possibility was quite hidden from Celia, who felt that Dorothea's childless widowhood fell in quite prettily with the birth of little Arthur (baby was named after Mr. Brooke).

西莉亚完全隐瞒了这种可能性，她觉得多萝西娅没有孩子的寡居生活与小亚瑟（孩子以布鲁克先生的名字命名）的出生非常吻合。

Mrs. Herriton took the opportunity of speaking more seriously about the duties of widowhood and motherhood than she had ever done before.

赫里顿夫人借此机会比以往任何时候都更认真地谈论了寡妇和母亲的责任。

At last, when they were left alone, she informed him of the unexpected meeting with Arabella, and the latter's widowhood.

最后，只剩下他们两个人时， 她告诉他与阿拉贝拉的意外会面， 以及后者守寡的事。

In my Facebook post 30 days into widowhood, I wrote that I'd never have another moment of pure joy.

在我成为寡妇后的第30天，我在Facebook上发帖写道，我再也不会有纯粹的快乐时刻了。

Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

哪知，丧子、寡居这两件事在日转眼之间必临到你，正在你多行邪术、广施符咒的时候，这两件事必全然临到你身上。