| 单词 | bachelor's wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbachelor's wife b. bachelor's wife: the ideal wife of which a bachelor theorizes or dreams. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [noun] > ideal person bachelor's wife1546 Prince Charming1855 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > marriageable person > woman desirable or ideal as wife bachelor's wife1546 Miss Right1890 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. I Bachelers wiues, & maides children be well tought. 1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. i. 9 Ay! ay!..Batchelors' Wives, indeed, are finely govern'd. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 503 The ‘bachelor's wife’..occupies a large place in our literature, as the mistress of all the poets who ever wrote on love without actually experiencing it. < as lemmas |
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