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

• Rock into womanhood, elizabeth! We know that you will.
  长大成人了，我们知道会有这么一天的。
• Here she is on the threshold of womanhood
  现在她将迈入成年期。
• 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。
• His remarks are an insult to womanhood.
  他的话是对女性的侮辱。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She had passed from childhood to early womanhood.
  她已由童年进入了少女期。
• 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。