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

• She was a little girl when I left home; now she buds into womanhood.
  当我离开家的时候她本是个小女孩；现在她亭亭玉立成了女人家了。
• When you had grown to womanhood, you were to be mine.
  当你长大成人，就会成为我的女人。
• May has grown to womanhood.
  梅已是成年女人了。
• 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；
• Here she is on the threshold of womanhood
  现在她将迈入成年期。
• It's an insult to American womanhood; woman is the glory of creation.
  这是对美国妇女的侮辱。
• Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
  有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢？
• 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 had passed from childhood to early womanhood.
  她已由童年进入了少女期。
• 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。