The effect was first noted in 1858 by William Farr, who wrote that widows and widowers were at a much higher risk of dying than their married peers.

1858年，威廉·法尔（William Farr）首次发现了这一效应，他写道，寡妇和鳏夫的死亡风险比已婚同龄人高得多。

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A key idea of the family of Rotary is that it encompasses the family of every Rotarian — spouses, widows and widowers, children, and parents.

扶轮家庭的主要观念之一是它涵盖每个扶轮社员的家庭、配偶、矜寡者、子女、及双亲。

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A question raised in the face-lifted LIFESTYLE page goes: how should society at large look upon the love between widows and widowers in their twilight years?

改版后的《生活版》提出了这样的问题：全社会该如何看待鳏寡老人的黄昏之恋？

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Widows and widowers also can play one benefit against the other, he says.

WSJ: Family Value: Bolstering Your Social Security Benefits

The alternative would be to introduce equal, but lesser, benefits for widows and widowers or even to scrap them altogether.

ECONOMIST: Social security

Second, thanks to increased longevity, bereaved spouses are outliving their partners for longer than the widows and widowers of yesteryear.

ECONOMIST: Singletons