Domesticity
[,dɒme'stɪsɪtɪ;,dəʊm-] or ['domɛ'stɪsəti]
解释:
(noun.) domestic activities or life; 'making a hobby of domesticity'.
(noun.) the quality of being domestic or domesticated; 'a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity'.
校对:西尔玛--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
手打:罗谢尔
例句:
- What you call wearisome domesticity, said the Rector in a voice of emotion, is the happiest state in which a man can find himself. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- And the deeper he went in domesticity the more did the sense of acquitting himself and acting with propriety predominate over any other satisfaction. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I don't care about such wearisome domesticity. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Even the fashionable quarters had the air of untidy domesticity to which no excess of heat ever degrades the European cities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
整理:罗伯塔