1. Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage—twentysomething professionals or widowed senior citizens. 曾几何时，独自生活的人往往是婚姻中的任意一方——或是包括20多岁的专业人士，或是丧偶的老年人。
2. She was widowed when she was 35. 她35岁时就守了寡。
3. More and more young men are widowed by cancer. 越来越多的男青年被癌症夺去妻子。
4. His second wife, Hilary, had been widowed, then exiled from South Africa. 他的第二任妻子希拉里曾一度孀居，之后被逐出南非。
5. They're more likely to be widowed, and if they're the ones who become ill, they're more likely to get divorced. 她们更有可能成为寡妇，而且如果她们生病了，就更有可能离婚。
