empty nest

常见例句

双语例句

• Empty Nest Syndrome?
  空巢综合症？
• She and her husband, Jeff, 56, a heavy-equipment operator, finally had an empty nest.
  她和丈夫杰夫---56岁的重型设备操作员---终于成为空巢一族。
• However Dr Dorothy Rowe, from the British Psychological Society, said the effects of living in an "empty nest" will depend on the parents' relationship with their children.
  而英国心理学会的多罗茜•露博士称，“空巢”家庭是否有助于增进夫妻感情取决于父母与孩子的关系。

原声例句

• Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest.

权威例句

• Bringing into our empty nest another living being to make happy and take care of helped put our relationship back on its natural axis.
  NEWYORKER: Changing Times
• After years of facing all sorts of financial pressures they never expected, from adult kids moving back home to their own parents needing help to retire, empty nest parents are struggling with a new headache.
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