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womanhood

英 [ˈwʊmənhʊd]

美 [ˈwʊmənhʊd]

n.  成年女子的状态; (统称)妇女

BNC.20028 / COCA.16162

牛津词典

    noun

    • 成年女子的状态
      the state of being a woman, rather than a girl
      1. He watched his daughters grow to womanhood.
        他看着自己的女儿们都长大成人了。
    • (统称)妇女
      women in general
      1. the womanhood of this country
        这个国家的妇女

    柯林斯词典

    • N-UNCOUNT 女人;成年女性;女子成年期
      Womanhoodis the state of being a woman rather than a girl, or the period of a woman's adult life.
      1. Here she is on the threshold of womanhood...
        现在她将迈入成年期。
      2. Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
        女人怀孕是天经地义的事。
    • N-UNCOUNT (泛指)女性;(某个国家或群体的)妇女
      You can refer to women in general or the women of a particular country or community aswomanhood.
      1. She symbolised for me the best of Indian womanhood.
        在我看来,她代表着最优秀的印度女性。
      2. ...the changing condition of womanhood in the closing decades of this century.
        本世纪最后几十年中妇女境况的不断变化

    英英释义

    noun

    • the status of a woman
      1. women as a class
        1. it's an insult to American womanhood
        2. woman is the glory of creation
        3. the fair sex gathered on the veranda
        Synonym:womanfair sex
      2. the state of being an adult woman
          Synonym:muliebrity

        双语例句

        • Although in the ancient times, China had a "hair-do ceremony" for girls, I never heard about any of my female classmates celebrating her entering womanhood.
          虽然中国古代有及笄礼,我从来没有听说过任何女同学庆祝过自己进入成年。
        • Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
          有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢?
        • His remarks are an insult to womanhood.
          他的话是对女性的侮辱。
        • On close examination of the texts, however, these deceptively simple stereotypes of American womanhood do not hold.
          其实,这些虚构的简单的美国妇女形象是不存在的。
        • She had passed from childhood to early womanhood.
          她已由童年进入了少女期。
        • Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind, with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting, even to the happiest among them?
          事实上,她心中也时常升腾起涉及全人类女性的同样阴郁的问题:即使对女性中最幸福的人来说,那人的生存有价值吗?
        • She grew into womanhood without ever knowing her father.
          她一直到成年都不知道自己的父亲是谁。
        • At first she had a small child clinging to her skirts, and now this child had grown to full womanhood, and every day she, too, came with her mother to the porch and waved.
          当初她有一个小孩缠着她的裙子,现在这孩子已长成大姑娘,也每天和她母亲一起出来挥手致意。
        • This is more a celebration of your womanhood.
          这种舞不仅仅是对你的女性特质的一种赞美。
        • As if there were a withering spell in the sad letter, her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like fading sunshine; and a grey shadow seemed to fall across her.
          似乎在这令人哀伤的字母中有一种枯萎的符咒,她的美丽,她那女性的丰满和温暖,都象落日般地离去了;一抹灰蒙蒙的阴影似是落在了她身上。