Womanhood

(noun.) the status of a woman.

(noun.) women as a class; 'it's an insult to American womanhood'; 'woman is the glory of creation'; 'the fair sex gathered on the veranda'.

(noun.) the state of being an adult woman.

吉尔手打

• You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I tried hard to feel that Sir Percival was to blame, and to say so, but my womanhood would pity him, in spite of myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in rough scenes and under strange conditions. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Ever since her womanhood almost, had she not been persecuted and undervalued? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was beautiful as a new marvellous flower opened at his knees, a paradisal flower she was, beyond womanhood, such a flower of luminousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She was like a strange unconscious bud of powerful womanhood. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The Greeks had noble conceptions of womanhood in the goddesses Athene and Artemis, and in the heroines Antigone and Andromache. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The dinginess, the crudity of this average section of womanhood made him feel how highly specialized she was. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Oh waywardness of womanhood! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But that simplicity of hers, holding up an ideal for others in her believing conception of them, was one of the great powers of her womanhood. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

编辑:维姬