For many women, the status which goes with being a wife is important.

对许多女性来说，伴随为人妻而来的地位很重要。

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Not because they had beat up someone but because they had beat up the wife of someone important.

原因不是因为他们打了人，而是因为他们打了某位重要人物的妻子。

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Let your wife know that your marriage is more important than the disagreement.

让你的妻子明白你们的婚姻比两人的争执重要。

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

VOA: special.2009.01.31

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

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Meryl Streep's other important roles are as a wife and mother.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Hanna Diamond, an expert on wartime France and professor at the University of Bath in England, says Raymond and his wife were important in the Resistance as founding members of a group called Liberation-Sud, based in Lyon.

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While the jury's still out on Jacksonville's marriage test, there's little debate that meeting a player's wife serves another important function: "She's usually a big part of the decision-making process, " Smith said.

WSJ: Jacksonville Jaguars Ask Free Agents to Bring Their Wives

Is work more important to me than my wife or my children?

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