英语词汇wife的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	wife
词源	wife [OE] The original meaning of wife was simply ‘woman’, a sense still used in Scotland and in terms such as fishwife [E16th] and midwife. All the world and his wife, meaning ‘everyone’ or ‘a great many people’, is first recorded in 1730. See also* woman.
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