empty nest

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away.
    — One woman with a full-on and demanding career e-mailed me to say ‘This empty nest thing is no joke. I didn't realise it would hit me so hard. It is day three of my daughter being gone and I have to resist the urge to weep every time I go past her room.’
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see empty, nest.

词形变化

empty nests plural

词源

From birds whose offspring leave the nest when they reach maturity.
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