| 单词 | woman | ||
| 释义 | woman wʊmən ˈwʊmən Word forms: plural women
SYN girlfriend, girl, wife, partner
Quotations She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman Athalie The meaning of what it is to be a woman has never been more open-ended and therefore more filled with anxiety What 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 size A 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 disposition When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? 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?' A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same The Red and the Green Fickle and changeable always is woman Aeneid A man is as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks The Unknown Quantity Men play the game, women know the score 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 in The prime truth of woman, the universal mother...that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly What's Wrong with the World One is not born a woman; one becomes one The Second Sex Woman was God's second blunder Der 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 football Metropolitan Life The greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript The Spectator A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle Frailty, thy name is woman! Hamlet Men, at most, differ as Heaven and earth, But women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell Merlin and Vivien A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can Northanger Abbey A woman's place is in the wrong I expect that woman will be the last thing civilized by man A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult I hate women because they always know where things are Most women are not as young as they are painted She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression The Screwtape Letters A woman knows enough if she knows enough to mend our shirts and cook us a steak Man has his will; but woman has her way All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his The Importance of Being Earnest When women go wrong, men go right after them Women - one half of the human race at least - care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry The English Constitution Women can't forgive failure The Seagull Women, then, are only children of a larger growth Letters 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? Women are really much nicer than men: no wonder we like them A 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 joke Outrageous 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 literature Justine If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? Some Reflections upon Marriage Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything Hotel du Lac O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works Paradise Lost Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is Diary Word Link
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