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

• 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。
• Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind, with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting, even to the happiest among them?
  事实上，她心中也时常升腾起涉及全人类女性的同样阴郁的问题：即使对女性中最幸福的人来说，那人的生存有价值吗？
• 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。
• May has grown to womanhood.
  梅已是成年女人了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
  有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢？
• She had passed from childhood to early womanhood.
  她已由童年进入了少女期。
• If still alive, she must now have been in the flush and bloom of early womanhood.
  如果她还活着，如今应该是个楚楚动人的少女了。