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女房 (にょうぼう) - N2 vocabulary
wife
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- あの家は女房が亭主をしりに敷いている。 She wears the trousers in that house.
- あの夫婦は共かせぎしている。だが亭主の給料のほうが女房の給料よりも低い。亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。 He and his wife are working together for a living, and his salary is lower than hers, No wonder he is a hen-pecked husband.
- 我が家では女房が財布の紐を握っている。 My wife holds the purse strings in our family.
- 去年女房に死なれた。 I lost my wife last year.
- 言い換えれば、彼女は良き女房になった。 She became, in other words, a good wife.
- 呼吸をする以外、なにをするにも、事前に妻の許可を必要とする人は女房の尻にしかれている夫だ。 A man who asks his wife's permission before taking any action except breathing is a henpecked husband.
- 女房が映画に行きたがっていることがよくわかったので、いじわるな亭主は一計を案じ、くるあてもない来客を家で待つことにした。 Knowing very well that his wife wanted to go to a movie, the husband, who was a dog in the manger, cooked up a scheme whereby they had to stay at home waiting for a certain visitor who was not expected to come.
- 女房が突然泣き出した。 My wife burst into tears.
- 女房にどなってたのはおまえさんか。 Were you shouting at my wife?
- 女房の悪さは六十年の不作。 A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband. [Proverb]
- 女房の尻にしかれている亭主は、幸せな独り者に話してはじめて、自分の問題を認識することがたびたびだ。 Many time a hen - pecked husband doesn't know his problems until he talks to a happy bachelor.
- 女房は店員さんより一回り小さい手だ。 Her hands are just slightly smaller that yours.
- 酔っ払っておそく家に帰ったかどで、怒った女房は亭主に食ってかかり、箒で亭主をひっぱたいた。 The angry wife was on the warpath; she hit her husband with a broom for coming home late and drunk.
- 亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。 No wonder he is a hen - pecked husband.
- 彼は女房の尻に敷かれている。 He is a hen-pecked husband.
- 彼は懲役十年で、女房には三年の刑が下った。 He was given ten years and his wife three.
