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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

老婆 [lǎopó]
  1. 1. noun [老太太] old woman
  2. 2. noun [妻子] wife

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

老婆 [lǎopó]
  1. 1. [Spoken] wife

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

老婆 [lǎopó]
  1. 1. 名 [口] 妻子(zi)。

Examples

老婆
take a wife; get married
在家里,他对他的老婆很服帖。
你怎么会找个拜金的女孩子做老婆
Why do you marry a girl to whom money is the most important thing in the world?
王总希望他老婆做一名家庭主妇。
Mr. Wang, a manager, wants his wife to be a housewife.
他在家里很能干活儿,老婆说他是模范丈夫,朋友们则说他像个“男仆”。
He is capable of doing housework. His wife praises him as a model husband, but friends say that he is a male servant.
老婆当然是我们家的内掌柜。
My wife is of course in charge of our family.
小王的老婆刚生了个女儿,小王这几天都沉浸在弄瓦之乐中。
Xiao Wang's wife gave birth to a girl recently. Xiao Wang is full of the of having a daughter these days.
他出去寻欢作乐,老婆也不管管。
His wife doesn't care even though he goes out and seeks pleasure with other women.
离婚以后他才发现老婆还是原配的好。
After getting divorced, he finally found that his first wife had been much better.
那个漂亮的女人是他再娶的老婆
That beautiful woman is his second wife.

Word Decomposition


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