womanhood

noun

1. 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。
2. （统称）妇女
   women in general
   1. the womanhood of this country
      这个国家的妇女

1. N-UNCOUNT 女人;成年女性;女子成年期
   Womanhood is 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。
2. 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 as womanhood .
   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

1. Here she is on the threshold of womanhood
   现在她将迈入成年期。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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？
5. 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。
6. Providence, in the person of this little girl, had assigned to Hester's charge the germ and blossom of womanhood, to be cherished and developed amid a host of difficulties.
   上天把这小女孩交付给海丝特，就是要她保护女性的幼芽和蓓蕾，在众多的困难中加以抚育和培养。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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？
14. May has grown to womanhood.
    梅已是成年女人了。
15. His remarks are an insult to womanhood.
    他的话是对女性的侮辱。
16. Who will hear the cry of suffering womanhood?
    有谁倾听苦难妇女的呼声呢？
17. Although in the ancient times, China had a "hair-do ceremony" for girls, I never heard about any of my female classmates celebrating her entering womanhood.
    虽然中国古代有及笄礼，我从来没有听说过任何女同学庆祝过自己进入成年。
18. 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
19. 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；
20. 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。
21. She had passed from childhood to early womanhood.
    她已由童年进入了少女期。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. It's an insult to American womanhood; woman is the glory of creation.
    这是对美国妇女的侮辱。
25. 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。
26. 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
27. 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。

noun

1. the status of a woman

2. 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

3. the state of being an adult woman

   Synonym:    muliebrity