广播电视英语短句 第 162 课：沙发土豆-6

Now these children are grown and have left the nest. 现在，这些孩子都已长大并离开了巢穴。

They are in college. Or they are married and starting families of their own far away. 他们在大学中或者他们已经结婚，并在遥远的地方开始了自己的家庭生活。

Now these parents are living alone without children in their empty nest. 现在这些父母在他们的空巢中过着没有孩子们的孤独生活。

They have become empty nesters. 他们已成为“空巢老人”。