better half

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
    — Near-synonyms: other half (neutral valence), ball and chain (negative valence)
  2. A very close friend or companion. archaic

词形变化

better halves plural

词源

Ultimately from such Latin poetic phrases as animae dīmidium meae (“half of my soul”) (Horace writing about Virgil), when it instead referred to a close friend (compare soulmate). First written instance of it meaning “spouse” was in 1580 by Sir Philip Sidney.
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