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

• It will happen like this& after her eighteenth birthday, she will be required to attend family weddings dressed in a sari, signaling her womanhood.
  依照预期&过了十八岁生日，她得穿上纱丽参加家族的婚礼，表示她已是成年女子了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• May has grown to womanhood.
  梅已是成年女人了。
• 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。
• 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。