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