1N-COUNT 成年女子;妇女 A woman is an adult female human being. 成年女子;妇女
...a young Lithuanian woman named Dayva.
名叫戴娃的立陶宛年轻女子
...men and women over 75 years old.
75岁以上的男女
...a woman doctor.
女医生
2N-UNCOUNT (泛指)女性,女子 You can refer to women in general as woman . (泛指)女性,女子
...the oppression of woman.
对妇女的压迫
3N-COUNT 爱好…的女人;喜欢做…的女子 If you say that a woman is, for example, a gambling woman or an outdoors woman, you mean that she likes gambling or outdoor activities. a woman about town→see: town爱好…的女人;喜欢做…的女子
She is an avid outdoors woman.
她酷爱户外运动。
I'm too old to have a dog now. I'm a cat woman.
我太老了,养不了狗。我喜欢养猫。
4N-COUNT [n-proper N]来自…的女人;在…上大学的女子 If you say that a woman is, for example, a London woman or an Oxford woman, you mean that she comes from London or Oxford, or went to university there. 来自…的女人;在…上大学的女子
...a 38-year-old London woman.
38岁的伦敦女子
The headmistress was an Oxford woman.
女校长毕业于牛津大学。
5N-COUNT [poss NOUN]妻子;情人;女友 Some people refer to a man's wife, lover, or girlfriend as his woman . 妻子;情人;女友 [informal]
6N-COUNT [with supplement](公司或组织的)女代表,女代理人 You can refer to a female representative of a company or organization as that company or organization's woman . (公司或组织的)女代表,女代理人
Yet another successful Labour woman took her seat.
又有一位成功的工党女代表就任议员。
That's Judith Croft, the CND woman.
那个就是朱迪丝·克罗夫特, 核裁军运动女代表。
7N-VOC (命令性的或生气、不耐烦时的称呼)婆娘,娘儿们 People sometimes address a woman as woman when they are ordering her to do something or when they are angry or impatient with her. This use could cause offence. (命令性的或生气、不耐烦时的称呼)婆娘,娘儿们
Do you realize, woman, the scandal and publicity that will be involved?
9PHRASE [VERB inflects]独立自主;做独立女性 If you say that a woman is her own woman, you approve of the fact that she makes her plans and decisions herself, and does not depend on other people. 独立自主;做独立女性 [approval]
She knew she had made the right decision. She was her own woman again.
She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a womanJean RacineAthalie
The meaning of what it is to be a woman has never been more open-ended and therefore more filled with anxietyNancy FridayWhat is a Real Woman?
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural sizeVirginia WoolfA Room of One's Own
The individual woman is required ... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good dispositionJeannette Rankin
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?Edith Evans
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is `What does a woman want?'Sigmund Freud
A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggleEdna Ferber
I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the sameIris MurdochThe Red and the Green
Fickle and changeable always is womanVirgilAeneid
A man is as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looksMortimer CollinsThe Unknown Quantity
Men play the game, women know the scoreRoger Woddis
A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is inAnita Brookner
The prime truth of woman, the universal mother...that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badlyG.K. ChestertonWhat's Wrong with the World
One is not born a woman; one becomes oneSimone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex
Woman was God's second blunderFriedrich NietzscheDer Antichrist
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play footballFran LebowitzMetropolitan Life
The greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by menPericles
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscriptSir Richard SteeleThe Spectator
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycleattributed to Gloria Steinem
Frailty, thy name is woman!William ShakespeareHamlet
Men, at most, differ as Heaven and earth, But women, worst and best, as Heaven and HellAlfred, Lord TennysonMerlin and Vivien
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she canJane AustenNorthanger Abbey
A woman's place is in the wrongJames Thurber
I expect that woman will be the last thing civilized by manGeorge Meredith
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does notColette
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficultCharlotte Whitton
I hate women because they always know where things areJames Thurber
Most women are not as young as they are paintedSir Max Beerbohm
She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expressionC.S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters
A woman knows enough if she knows enough to mend our shirts and cook us a steakPierre-Joseph Proudhon
Man has his will; but woman has her wayO.W. Holmes
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's hisOscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest
When women go wrong, men go right after themMae West
Women - one half of the human race at least - care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministryWalter BagehotThe English Constitution
Women can't forgive failureAnton ChekhovThe Seagull
Women, then, are only children of a larger growthLord ChesterfieldLetters to his Son
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?Vicesimus Knox
Women are really much nicer than men: no wonder we like themKingsley AmisA Bookshop Idyll
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty jokeGloria SteinemOutrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literatureLawrence DurrellJustine
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?Mary AstellSome Reflections upon Marriage
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anythingAnita BrooknerHotel du Lac
O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's worksJohn MiltonParadise Lost
Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business isSamuel PepysDiary
ADJECTIVE | VERB + WOMAN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤young年輕女子▸➤middle-aged中年婦女▸➤elderly, old, older上了年紀的女人;老婦;較年長的婦女◇The thief tricked his way into an elderly woman's home.竊賊使用欺騙的手段進入了一個老太太家。◇Older women often have difficulty conceiving.年齡較大的女性不容易懷孕。➤adult, grown成年女子◇The little girl she remembered was now a grown woman.她記憶中的那個小女孩已經長大成人了。➤married已婚女人▸➤single, unattached, unmarried單身女子;未婚女士▸➤widowed寡婦▸➤divorced離婚的婦女▸➤pregnant孕婦▸➤childless無子女的女人➤menopausal, post-menopausal更年期/絕經婦女▸➤business(usually businesswoman) , career, professional, working女商人;職業婦女➤average, ordinary普通的女人➤extraordinary, remarkable非凡的/了不起的女人▸➤attractive, beautiful, good-looking, handsome, pretty有魅力的女人;漂亮女郎;端莊秀麗的女子;美女▸➤desirable性感女郎▸➤plain, ugly相貌平平的女子;醜女人▸➤well-dressed衣着高雅的女士➤educated, intelligent, smart (especially NAmE) 有教養的女人;聰明的女人◇highly educated women who are successful in business受過良好教育並在事業上取得成功的女人➤powerful, strong有權勢的女人;女強人➤successful成功的女人➤independent, modern獨立的女人;現代女性▸➤motherly慈母般的女人▸➤decent, good, kind, nice正派的女人;好女人;善良的女人▸➤evil, wicked邪惡的女人;壞女人▸➤hysterical歇斯底里的女人▸➤battered受虐待的婦女◇a hostel for battered women受虐婦女收容所➤the other情婦;第三者◇She was the 'other woman' in this family drama (= the one the husband was having an affair with).她就是這場家庭鬧劇中的第三者。◇Jean Menkes plays the president's wife and Fiona Handley plays the other woman.瓊・門克斯飾演總統夫人,而菲奧娜・漢德利扮演總統的情婦。VERB + WOMAN➤marry娶某個女人▸➤depict, portray, present, show刻畫女性;塑造女性;表現女性◇We want to change the way women are depicted in the media.我們想要改變媒體眼中的女性形象。➤abuse, assault, rape虐待/侵犯/強姦婦女PHRASES➤the oppression of women, violence against women對婦女的壓迫/暴力◇a United Nations report on violence against women一份有關暴力傷害婦女的聯合國報告➤the position of women, the role of women, the status of women女性的地位;女性的作用◇There were important changes in the position of women in society.女性的社會地位有了重大變化。➤a woman of a certain age (= not young)上年紀的婦女➤women of childbearing age育齡婦女▸➤a woman of the world深通世故的女人◇He saw her as a woman of the world who could offer him advice.他認為她深通世故,能夠幫他出出主意。➤women's liberation, the women's movement (becomingold-fashioned) 婦女解放/運動◇a symbol of women's liberation婦女解放的標誌➤a women's group婦女組織➤women's rights婦女權利➤women's studies女性研究◇a professor of women's studies研究女性問題的教授
woman ♦︎ lady ♦︎ femaleThese are all words for an adult female person.这些词均表示成年女子、妇女。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆a / an young / older woman / lady / female◆a / an middle-aged / old / elderly woman / lady◆a black / white woman / lady / female◆a / an married / single / unmarried woman / lady◆a / an beautiful / attractive woman / lady / female◆a nice / fine / charming woman / lady■woman [countable] an adult female person成年女子;妇女◆a 24-year-old woman24岁的女子◆Alcohol affects men and women differently.酒精对男性和女性的作用不同。◆I prefer to see a woman doctor.我希望让女医生给我看病。OPPman ⇨ man1■lady [countable] a polite way of referring to a woman, especially sb that you do not know(尤用于礼貌地谈及不认识的女子)女士,小姐◆There's a lady waiting to see you.有位女士在等您。ⓘ Ladies [plural] is a polite, formal way of addressing more than one woman.复数形式的ladies是称呼多位女士的礼貌而正式的用语◆Can I take your coats, ladies?女士们,我替你们拿大衣好吗?◆Ladies and gentlemen! Can I have your attention, please?女士们、先生们!请注意!To address one woman in this way, you can use madam or ma'am.称呼一位女士时,可用madam或ma'am◆Can I take your coat, madam / ma'am?女士,我替你拿大衣好吗?However, some women do not like to be called lady or madam, so you can leave it out.但是,有些妇女不愿意被称为lady或madam,那就可以把称呼省略掉◆There's someone waiting to see you.有人在等你。◆Can I take your coats?我替你们拿大衣好吗?OPPgentleman ⇨ man1■female [countable] (formalortechnical术语) a woman or girl女子◆The body is that of a white female aged about 30.死者是一名年龄约30岁的白人女子。◆More females than males are employed in the factory.这家工厂雇用的女工多于男工。ⓘ The noun female is mostly used in formal, official, scientific or medical contexts. * female作名词时,大多用于正式、官方、科技或医学语境。OPPmale ⇨ man1