Womanhood
['wʊmənhʊd] or ['wʊmən'hʊd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the status of a woman.
(noun.) women as a class; 'it's an insult to American womanhood'; 'woman is the glory of creation'; 'the fair sex gathered on the veranda'.
(noun.) the state of being an adult woman.
吉尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.
(n.) Women, collectively; womankind.
手打:梅尔瓦
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Muliebrity, feminality, femineity.
约翰娜編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I tried hard to feel that Sir Percival was to blame, and to say so, but my womanhood would pity him, in spite of myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in rough scenes and under strange conditions. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Ever since her womanhood almost, had she not been persecuted and undervalued? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was beautiful as a new marvellous flower opened at his knees, a paradisal flower she was, beyond womanhood, such a flower of luminousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was like a strange unconscious bud of powerful womanhood. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Oh waywardness of womanhood! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But that simplicity of hers, holding up an ideal for others in her believing conception of them, was one of the great powers of her womanhood. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:维姬