For the first time in his married life, Mister Mindon felt as important as his wife Millicent.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

When my wife and I first moved to Amherst, Massachusetts I took a job there once we took some baked goods over to our neighbors.

当我和我妻子刚搬到马萨诸塞的阿默斯特,我曾经在那里工作过,我们给新邻居送了一些烤的小点心

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

For the first time in his married life, Mr. Mindon felt as important as his wife Millicent.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Those relationships take place in the context of continual negotiations of sexual relationships, and so the book begins with that explanation that: I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

他们之间的关系是建立在,不断协商和性关系的基础上，所以书的开头有这样一段说明：,我第一次见到迪恩时刚和我妻子分开。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It has a name which is the first name of the husband or the wife or the town where they came from -- Lois,Tony's,Estelle's,or Maria's, or the Calaberian or the Belonia.

VOA: special.2010.08.28

Because here he was for the first time in-- well, since my wife and I were together-- someone else is getting much more attention than I was, no matter how much I cried.

因为这是妻子和我在一起后-,第一次有人夹在中间-,另一个人比我获得更多的关注，不管我怎么哭。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

BELLA. ; But Carlisle did. EDWARD. ; First with meand then with his wife, Esme.

VOA: standard.other

And he began to write back, first to his fiancee who quickly became his wife, Mary, and he was really worried about all the slaves he owned.

随后他就开始写回信,首先给他的未婚妻玛丽,不久便结婚了,并且他对他所拥有的奴隶充满忧虑

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选