巨蟹妻具母性魅力遵从夫愿

 　　依赖、敏感、善变、吹毛求疵。 由于拥有顾家、爱家的优秀特质，使巨蟹夫人视家庭为生活唯一重心，她喜欢孩子的程度，掌控先生行踪的能力，简直有如007侦探员一般，教人叹为观止。

　　The Cancer Wife--June 22 to July 22

　　The Cancer wife mothers everything. She typifies the most motherly influence of all of the Zodiacal wives. When at her best, she is a sympathetic, affectionate protective woman, patient, devoted¹, adaptable², satisfied with anything her husband provides for her. Her home is wherever her husband decides that it should be, and she gives the humblest place a permanent, established look. Her presence is sanctifying, and she understands how to serve. She is loved and respected in return for her devotion, and is the personification of all of the literature written that idealizes “Mother.”

　　All this, of course, depends upon the planetary combinations in the nativity. Many Cancer wives have some of these good qualities. They are devoted mothers, full of affection for the family, but too often moody³, changeable, ignorant, and unwilling⁴ to be improved, temperamental to a fault and sensitive in the extreme. It is very easy for the Cancer girl to marry, for her natural inclinations⁵ are so sympathetic that this quality of thought draws marriage to her. She seeks without a good deal of character and background, she will need the help and guidance of her husband for the strength to meet life‘s problems. Her husband is on a pedestal in her imagination, and if he fails her, the spiritual shock is Cancer wife is as much a help to the husband as his worldly stamina⁶ is to her.

　　This native is passionately⁷ possessive and everything concerning the life of her family absorbs her completely. Sometimes these intuitive instinctive⁸ women have (counter to all else in their make up) an uncannily accurate business sense, and they are able to advise their husbands in business with unexpected wisdom. Taken generally, the whole character is proverbially feminine, and the man who marries a Cancer wife gets a completely womanly woman. Their type is divided into at least two groups, one of which is the dominant⁹.

1 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。

2 adaptable   

adj.能适应的，适应性强的，可改编的

参考例句：

• He is an adaptable man and will soon learn the new work.他是个适应性很强的人，很快就将学会这种工作。
• The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.这土壤适宜于花生的生长。

3 moody   

adj.心情不稳的，易怒的，喜怒无常的

参考例句：

• He relapsed into a moody silence.他又重新陷于忧郁的沉默中。
• I'd never marry that girl.She's so moody.我决不会和那女孩结婚的。她太易怒了。

4 unwilling   

adj.不情愿的

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。

5 inclinations   

倾向( inclination的名词复数 )； 倾斜； 爱好； 斜坡

参考例句：

• She has artistic inclinations. 她有艺术爱好。
• I've no inclinations towards life as a doctor. 我的志趣不是行医。

6 stamina   

n.体力；精力；耐力

参考例句：

• I lacked the stamina to run the whole length of the race.我没有跑完全程的耐力。
• Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina.戒烟神奇地增强了他的体力。

7 passionately   

ad.热烈地，激烈地

参考例句：

• She could hate as passionately as she could love. 她能恨得咬牙切齿，也能爱得一往情深。
• He was passionately addicted to pop music. 他酷爱流行音乐。

8 instinctive   

adj.(出于)本能的；直觉的；(出于)天性的

参考例句：

• He tried to conceal his instinctive revulsion at the idea.他试图饰盖自己对这一想法本能的厌恶。
• Animals have an instinctive fear of fire.动物本能地怕火。

9 dominant   

adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因

参考例句：

• The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
• She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。