widowhood

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Talking about the book made it easier to talkabout her widowhood and, when she was ready, her 9/11 story.
谈起这本书，会让她更容易讲出自己守寡的日子。当她乐意时，还可以讲讲她的9/11故事。
More than 30 years of widowhood were spent campaigning nationally for preservation and conservation of the landscape and wild flowers.
30多年的寡妇生涯中，她都在为保存土地和保护野花做全国范围的宣传活动。
If we incautiously interpret these numbers as causal – in fact they are merely correlations – then we could conclude that 20 years of marriage is compensation for up to 40 years of widowhood.
如果我们不那么谨慎，将这些数字解读成因果关系——事实上它们只是具有相关性——那么可能会得出下述结论：即，20年的婚姻足以补偿至多40年的丧偶经历。

So the average age at widowhood for black and Hispanic women is 54.
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Her widowhood was long, after Richard was killed in a car accident in 1975, but she never thought of replacing him.
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Because women have longer life expectancies and often marry men several years older than themselves, periods of widowhood of 15 years or longer are not uncommon.
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Widowhood is the state of being a widow or widower, or the period of time during which someone is a widow or widower.