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 woman ['wumәn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 女人, 妇女, 女仆

a. 女用的, 女性的, 妇女的

vt. 贬称...为女人, 使成女人腔




    woman
    [ noun ]
    1. an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

    2. <noun.person>
      the woman kept house while the man hunted
    3. a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man

    4. <noun.person>
      he was faithful to his woman
    5. a human female employed to do housework

    6. <noun.person>
      the char will clean the carpet
      I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write
    7. women as a class

    8. <noun.group>
      it's an insult to American womanhood
      woman is the glory of creation
      the fair sex gathered on the veranda


    Woman \Wom"an\, v. t.
    1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
    --Daniel.

    2. To make effeminate or womanish. [R.] --Shak.

    3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. [R.] ``To have him
    see me woman'd.'' --Shak.


    Woman \Wom"an\, n.; pl. {Women}. [OE. woman, womman, wumman,
    wimman, wifmon, AS. w[=i]fmann, w[=i]mmann; w[=i]f woman,
    wife + mann a man. See {Wife}, and {Man}.]
    1. An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as
    distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female
    person.

    Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible. --Shak.

    And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man,
    made he a woman. --Gen. ii. 22.

    I have observed among all nations that the women
    ornament themselves more than the men; that,
    wherever found, they are the same kind, civil,
    obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay
    and cheerful, timorous and modest. --J. Ledyard.

    2. The female part of the human race; womankind.

    Man is destined to be a prey to woman. --Thackeray.

    3. A female attendant or servant. `` By her woman I sent your
    message.'' --Shak.

    {Woman hater}, one who hates women; one who has an aversion
    to the female sex; a misogynist. --Swift.

    1. A woman was in critical condition today after nine hours of surgery to receive a new liver, following a plea from track star Carl Lewis to help locate an organ.
    2. The coroner's office ruled after an autopsy was performed on the woman's headless body, basing its findings on the opinions of toxicologists and a pathologist contracted by Riverside County, Cupido said.
    3. It allows abortions if a woman's doctor deems a patient is in "a state of distress." Opponents say this in fact makes abortion available on demand.
    4. In the only other U.S. death linked to the guerrilla fight, a Texas woman was among seven passengers killed and 28 wounded when guerrillas bombed a tourist train heading for the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in June 1986.
    5. In 1981 she was named the first woman maintenance squadron commander in the Strategic Air Command at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas.
    6. 'My friend was butchered last week,' said a 65-year-old Croat peasant woman.
    7. I don't want to ennoble it too much, but it's about the strength of humanity of this woman as opposed to the cold, inhumane aspect of the law that said she shouldn't help anybody, under those circumstances.
    8. Police said they stopped the car because Papa and Rampersant matched the description of a holdup team that had stolen $10 and a ring from a woman on a Coney Island street six days earlier.
    9. In the church meeting, Mr. Probert asks the president of the project's tenants' association, a slim nervous woman, to ask the borough council to kick out the drug dealers.
    10. Ms. Hoffman said liturgical abuses still occur in the archdiocese and cited Hunthausen washing a woman's feet last month in a Holy Week ritual.
    11. Hospital officials in Jabaliya said a woman was wounded by gunfire and 20 Arabs were treated for injuries caused by beatings or tear gas.
    12. A woman whose husband was convicted of theft refused to pay a fine to free him, then told the court she had fallen in love with a prosecution witness, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
    13. A passer-by ended the fracas by spraying Herd with the woman's can of chemical deterrent.
    14. A woman who answered the company's telephone Tuesday refused to discuss the case or refer the call to someone who would.
    15. After years of being passed over by the fashion establishment, the 48-year-old woman with the ever-youthful eye was named Designer of the Year Monday night at a star-studded charity gala at the Royal Albert Hall.
    16. A man from Illinois and a woman from Washington have reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, the Tourism Ministry announced Tuesday.
    17. The woman's remarkable recovery since being discovered near death in a wooded area in the park has been chronicled closely in the media and cheered by New Yorkers.
    18. The woman was not on the company's life support registry, which lists customers who use life support and medical treatment machines in their homes.
    19. "Peaceable Kingdom," about a gutsy woman zookeeper who lives right on the zoo grounds with her kids and pet seal, is another one of those warm-hearted family shows that make critics cringe.
    20. And Mr. Duke publicly expressed reservations about new Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas because he is married to a white woman.
    21. "Justice is justice, whether it's between a man and a woman or a guy and his dog." Raitt concludes "Nick of Time" with an original song, "The Road's My Middle Name," a bluesy stomp that reaffirms her dedication to music.
    22. The play is a 35-minute monologue by a cardinal who is being treated for alcoholism by the church after he kills the woman.
    23. Chicago attorney Lori B. Andrews, a specialist in reproductive technology law, said she knows of no in-vitro fertilization clinic that will take a single woman as a patient.
    24. They have snipers who have the soldiers controlled," a woman who fled the area said.
    25. In 1972, Ms. Rajender, an assistant professor of chemistry and the only woman in the department, was denied promotion to a tenure-track position.
    26. The woman called the "godmother" of a drug-smuggling cult that killed 15 people was charged Wednesday night with two other members in the weekend deaths of their leader and his right-hand man, authorities said.
    27. "So it has gotten this bad," sighs Marta Elena Alvarez, a peasant woman balancing a bag of corncobs on her head and a baby on her shoulder, as she watches the crowd inch toward the soldiers.
    28. An abortion performed after the fetus is viable is unlawful except in cases in which a woman's life is threatened.
    29. A lovely pastoral scene later on populated by figures of Shiva, an elephant, and an Indian woman playing with an electric yo-yo, is broken up by fascist bikers.
    30. The Austrian official told The Associated Press that the woman is on vacation and believed to be out of the country.
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