widowhood [ˈwɪdoʊhʊd]

例句:

• 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.
  
• Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
  守寡的打击和悲伤让人难以承受。
  
• When did this fleeing woman who had maintained a chaste widowhood find a husband?
  这守活寡的逃妇几时有了个新老公?
  
• Her attire of subdued mourning indicated widowhood.
  来自G. Gissing
• Throughout the twenty years of her widowhood, she behaved as if it simply didn't exist.
  来自NEWYORKER
• He seemed to have lost his way with me; widowhood had dispossessed him of any ease that he had once had around his only child.
  来自NEWYORKER