I may say that without love — wifely duty — where was I?

我可以说没有爱——妻子的责任——我在哪里？

There are certain wifely duties that I don't want to rush into.

但还有一些妻子应尽的义务 我不愿过于仓促。

To evince surprise at her husband's statement was part of her wifely amiability.

表现出对她丈夫的声明感到惊讶是她作为妻子的和蔼可亲的一部分。

" That's wifely work, " Dad said. " I've never heard of a man writing cards" .

" 这是妻子的工作，" 爸爸说，" 我从没听说过让男人填卡片的。"

When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own?

什么时候才能开始积极的妻子奉献， 以加强她丈夫的生活并提升她自己的生活？

Oh, are we? she said, as if she had not been aware of it. To show surprise at her husband's remark was part of her wifely duty.

" 哦，是吗？" 她说，好像自己没意识到这一点。对她丈夫的话表示惊讶，是履行妻子职责的一部分。

In this solemnly pledged union of her life, duty would present itself in some new form of inspiration and give a new meaning to wifely love.

在她生命的这种庄严的结合中，责任将以某种新的灵感形式呈现，并为妻子的爱赋予新的意义。

Dorothea could have liked nothing better, since wrongs existed, than that her husband should be in the thick of a struggle against them, and that she should give him wifely help.

多萝西娅最喜欢的莫过于她的丈夫与他们作斗争，而她应该像妻子一样帮助他，因为错误是存在的。

To a man under such circumstances, taking a wife is something more than a question of adornment, however highly he may rate this; and Lydgate was disposed to give it the first place among wifely functions.

在这种情况下，对于一个男人来说，娶妻不仅仅是装饰的问题，无论他如何评价这一点；利德盖特打算把它放在妻子的首要任务中。

Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.

作为一个顾家的男人，约翰显然怀念他惯常得到的妻子般的关注，但由于他很爱自己的孩子，他暂时放弃了舒适，以男性的无知假设和平很快就会恢复。