A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
丈夫
Husbands
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
不要把这样无限的权力交给丈夫。记住,如果可能的话,所有的人都会成为暴君。
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
那些在国内受泼妇管束的人,在国外最容易溜须拍马,和和气气。
Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
我们的孩子将不仅仅是“我们的孩子”——他们将成为其他人的丈夫和妻子,以及我们孙辈的父母。
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
父亲可能背弃他的孩子,兄弟姐妹可能成为根深蒂固的敌人,丈夫可能抛弃妻子,妻子可能抛弃丈夫。惟有母亲的慈爱,能看透一切。
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
有孩子的已婚妇女的一个典型抱怨是,工作压力使她们疲惫不堪,以至于她们没有什么好的情感和精力留给孩子,更不用说留给丈夫了。
I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.
我真的很想向我这个年龄的女性——她们有了孩子长大了,或者失去了丈夫,或者在工作了一辈子之后退休了——表明她们有很多选择。有选择。我们不必只是坐着不露面。
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
但是世界上也有女人,我们的英雄都娶了她们为妻。好太太们对她们丈夫的英勇并不陌生。而且,尽管这似乎很奇怪,他们还是有点自作主张。
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
女人似乎不理解,或低估了她们对丈夫的巨大影响力。
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
让大多数丈夫做某件事的最好方法就是暗示他们可能太老了,做不到。
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
在婚姻中,男人变得懒散和自私,并经历了他的道德存在的脂肪退化。
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
我有几个丈夫?你是说除了我自己?
Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
许多男人为他们妻子未来的丈夫囤积钱财。
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
好丈夫绝不是第一个晚上睡觉的人,也不是最后一个早上醒来的人。