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
• 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
• the state of being an adult woman
  Synonym:muliebrity

双语例句

• The breast has always been a symbol of womanhood and ultimate fertility.
  乳腺是女性性征和生育力的重要标志。
• Providence, in the person of this little girl, had assigned to Hester's charge the germ and blossom of womanhood, to be cherished and developed amid a host of difficulties.
  上天把这小女孩交付给海丝特，就是要她保护女性的幼芽和蓓蕾，在众多的困难中加以抚育和培养。
• 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。
• AZALEA-Take Care of Yourself For Me, Temperance, Fragile, Passion, Chinese Symbols of Womanhood
  杜鹃花-为了我保重你自己，温暖的，脆的，强烈的感情，在中国是子宫的象征
• 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。
• Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
  有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢？
• Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the1960s.
  布里吉提巴多是20世纪60年代法国电影中举足轻得的妇女形象。
• Disappointed of its real womanhood, it had not succeeded in becoming boyish, and unsubstantial, and transparent;
  在完成一个真正的女性上，这身体是挫败了，它没有成就一个童男似的透明无理的身体；
• Look, I understand that I'm challenging your views on fat womanhood and forcing you to question your beliefs and attitudes, but keep this contemplation to yourself.
  你瞧，我知道我在挑战你的肥胖女性观，在强迫你质问自己的信仰和态度，但是把这种思考留给你自己吧。
• 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。