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

• Problems of Southern Womanhood in Faulkner's Two Major Novels
  福克纳两部主要小说中的南方妇女问题
• 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？
• It's an insult to American womanhood; woman is the glory of creation.
  这是对美国妇女的侮辱。
• 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。
• This is more a celebration of your womanhood.
  这种舞不仅仅是对你的女性特质的一种赞美。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Why do you reduce womanhood to high hills and lipstick colors?
  为什么口红的颜色会减少女人味？
• 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。