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woman是什么意思

woman

英 ['w?m?n] 美 ['w?m?n]

n. 婦女；女性；成年女子

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1. 諧音“無man”-----也就是“無男人”，那自然就全是女人、婦女了，想想“女兒國”吧，要是咱身在女兒國得多幸福?。∠胂攵加X得爽??！啪！小強你這賤人又開始YY了！

中文詞源

woman 女人

縮寫自古英語wifman,女人，wif-,女人，詞源同wife,man,人。

英文詞源

woman: woman: [OE] A woman is etymologically a ‘wife-man’ – that is to say, a ‘female person’. The word was compounded in the Old English period from wīf ‘woman’ (source of modern English wife) and man ‘person’ (source of modern English man). Already by the end of the Old English period the f of wifman was disappearing, giving wiman, and the influence of the w sound started to turn this into woman in the 13th century. Woman did not finally oust the two more ancient words for ‘female person’, wife and the now obsolete quean, until the end of the Middle English period.
=> man, wife
woman (n.): "adult female human," late Old English wimman, wiman (plural wimmen), literally "woman-man," alteration of wifman (plural wifmen) "woman, female servant" (8c.), a compound of wif "woman" (see wife) + man "human being" (in Old English used in reference to both sexes; see man (n.)). Compare Dutch vrouwmens "wife," literally "woman-man."
It is notable that it was thought necessary to join wif, a neuter noun, representing a female person, to man, a masc. noun representing either a male or female person, to form a word denoting a female person exclusively. [Century Dictionary]
The formation is peculiar to English and Dutch. Replaced older Old English wif and quean as the word for "female human being." The pronunciation of the singular altered in Middle English by the rounding influence of -w-; the plural retains the original vowel. Meaning "wife," now largely restricted to U.S. dialectal use, is attested from mid-15c. Woman-hater "misogynist" is from c. 1600. Women's work is from 1660s. Women's liberation is attested from 1966; women's rights is from 1840, with an isolated example in 1630s.

雙語例句

1. When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.: 當有合適的女人出現(xiàn)時，這種胡思亂想就會停止了。

2. The Inspector remembered her as a small, mousy woman, invariably worried.: 檢察官記得，她是一個矮小、羞怯、總是悶悶不樂的人。

3. These days work plays an important part in a single woman's life.: 現(xiàn)在，工作在單身女性的生活中起著重要作用。

4. She has now changed into a happy, self-confident woman.: 如今她已經(jīng)變成一個快樂、自信的女人。

5. She was the only woman in Shell's legal department.: 她是殼牌公司法律事務部唯一的女性。

woman是什么意思

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