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 women ['wimin]   添加此单词到默认生词本
pl. 女人

  1. Women are often said to be more emotional than men.
    人们常说女人比男人更富于感情。
  2. Research indicates that men find it easier to give up smoking than women.
    研究表明,男人比女人更容易戒烟。



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.


Women \Wom"en\, n.,
pl. of {Woman}.

Herdswoman \Herds"wom`an\, n.; pl. -{women}.
A woman who tends a herd. --Sir W. Scott.

  1. Civil rights activists are accusing the Supreme Court of "redneck justice" and urging Congress to stem what they say is a reactionary tide threatening 35 years of progress for minorities and women.
  2. Why not simply start the women's groups and skip the loans and entrepreneurship?
  3. David V. Wachs, chairman, was named chief executive of this maker of women's clothing.
  4. Some women even choose to select the adoptive parents early in the pregnancy and have them accompany her to doctor appointments and act as natural childbirth coaches in the delivery room.
  5. For example, if a height standard is equally applied to all applicants, Hispanics and Asians are more negatively affected than whites, and women more than men.
  6. Employers see that eager recruiting among groups like women, minorities and the disabled will help, instead of "fighting" the idea, says Fred Alvarez, a Labor Department official.
  7. In their report in the current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Cedars-Sinai researchers said they found no evidence that the surgery was more difficult in women than men.
  8. The sharpest impact could come in Britain, where women get full retirement benefits at age 60 while men must wait until 65. Pension plans in Belgium, Greece and Portugal also may have to be rewritten.
  9. Much of Friday's session was spent debating language permitting the District of Columbia to use local funds to pay for abortions for poor women.
  10. Adds Peggy Bowling, an Oklahoma City fan, "A lot of women see in Barbie what they would like to be."
  11. Barry has survived embarrassments involving other women and his frequent absenses from the city.
  12. In the early 1980s, Ford reached a $23 million EEOC settlement and GM a $44.5 million settlement, both for discrimination against women and minorities.
  13. Robins has asked the bankruptcy court to block suits against it that might be brought by women who haven't yet discovered that the Shield hurt them.
  14. Before she went to the Transportation Department, she work for President Reagan as a White House liaison with women and minorities.
  15. It said the dead, taken to hospitals in Cairo and Ismailiya, included three women.
  16. But it expected considerably more public funds would be needed since many women who need better prenatal care live near or below the poverty line.
  17. After 12 days and more than 90 hours of deliberations, the jury of nine women and three men in federal court in Manhattan said they were hopelessly deadlocked in a three-way split and U.S. District Judge Mary Johnson Lowe declared the mistrial.
  18. "What's new is that they (the researchers) looked at the sites of shedding in women," said Dr. Stephen Straus, head of medical virology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.
  19. The two women chat cheerily.
  20. By the time police arrived, the fight had broken up and the women were in their car.
  21. The Small Business Administration is beginning an experimental program designed to give hard-headed business advice to fledgling women entrepreneurs.
  22. Despite the lack of health care and many dangers, African women continue to give birth too often, too early and too late.
  23. It's brought on behalf of all women.
  24. Dr. Henri Bismuth, a liver transplant surgeon at Paul Brousse Hospital in Paris, reported here Tuesday that he had no choice but to divide the liver of a 40-year-old brain-dead man for two women, both unconscious and near death.
  25. Because women are more likely to develop communal, confessional relationships, they say, there is a new flavor to collegial friendships.
  26. The protesters, including women in black chadors, also chanted slogans against the United States, France and Israel.
  27. Mrs. Eggert, 34, has changed her name and taken refuge in a "safe house" for abused women.
  28. We created the context for Roe to happen." Ms. Michelman urged the women to speak out and create a renewed climate of activism for the pro-abortion movement.
  29. "The boat people, in order to make the operation more difficult, pushed their women and children to the front," said Security Secretary M. Geoffrey Barnes.
  30. Haji and hajah are the titles for men and women who have made a pilgrimage, or haj, to Mecca and performed certain acts required on a pilgrimage.
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