易混淆的单词： Widowhood

Her mother was living in deep retirement , wallowing in widowhood .

她母亲深居简出，沉浸在寡居生活的愁绪之中。

A spouse dies , then soon , another : the widowhood effect

寡居效应：当一个配偶走了，随后另外一个很快也逝去了

Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age .

守寡使她不得不过着孤独的晚年生活。

That didn 't mean that they didn 't still miss their spouses , but that they had returned to somewhat normal functioning , contradicting the popular maxim of widowhood that " the second year is harder than the first . "

那并不意味着他们不再思念他们的伴侣，而是意味着他们已经复原了一些正常功能，这与流行的守寡格言“第二年比第一年更难”是相悖的。

Findings on the widowhood effect don 't come as news to medical professionals , who have observed similar patterns of increased mortality .

对于寡居效应的发现对于医务工作者来说并非新闻，他们早已观察了多起相似的案例。