没有妻子的公寓，对布鲁诺来说太过于空旷。

Living in their apartment without her was too much for him, so when an apartment opened up on the floor above me he moved in.

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但是，没有受过大学教育的单身男子看到，他们通胀调整后的收入在下降，而且没有妻子的工资作为缓冲。

But single men without any college education saw their inflation-adjusted earnings decrease, and they did not have a wife's wages cushion the decline.

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他没有提起和妻子的争吵。

He did not mention the quarrel with his wife.

《牛津词典》

I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

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