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wo.man5wJm7Ennpl women 9wImYInan adult female human being成年女子，妇女"What's your new boss like?" "She seems to be a very nice woman." [C]“你的新老板怎么样？”“她似乎是一个非常好的女人。”A woman and two men were arrested on the day after the explosion. [C]在爆炸后的当天一名妇女和两名男子被逮捕。Women first got the vote in Britain in 1918. [C]英国妇女于1918年第一次取得选举权。The women's singles final was won by Margaret Smith. [C]女子单打决赛的冠军由玛格丽特·史密斯获得。He is writing a book on the representation of woman (= women in general) in medieval art. [U]他在写一本关于中世纪艺术如何表现妇女的书。(infml) A man's wife or partner is sometimes called his woman.妻子，情妇Have you heard? Geoff's got a new woman. [C]你听说了吗？杰夫有了一个新女人。Woman also means female.女性She is Ireland's first woman (= female) president.她是爱尔兰的第一位女总统。The rape victim asked to see a woman police officer.强奸受害者要求见一位女警官。There are three women candidates for the post of company director.有3位女候选人应聘公司主管这一职位。Tracy Edwards led the first all-woman/all-women crew to success in the round-the-world yacht race.特蕾西·爱德华兹领导着第一支女子队在环球游艇赛中获胜。The Women's Institute (abbreviation WI) is an organization in Britain consisting of local groups which allow women to meet together socially and learn new skills.（英国）妇女协会She's an active member of the WI and is always organizing talks for her local group.她是妇女协会的一名积极成员，经常为她当地的小组组织讲座。Women's liberation (infml women's lib) is the aim of achieving equality for women in all areas of society.妇女解放运动As a student, I was heavily involved in women's lib and went to loads of meetings and demonstrations.作为一名学生，我积极地参与了妇女解放运动，并参加了大量的会议和示威游行。"I'm not a women's libber but I do believe women should be paid the same as men, " she said.“我不是一名妇女解放运动者，但我确实认为妇女应该与男子同酬，”她说道。The women's movement is those people whose social and political aims are to change women's position in society and increase awareness of women's condition in society.妇女（解放）运动The early 20th century women's movement fought for the political emancipation of women.20世纪早期的妇女运动为争取妇女的政治解放而战斗。A (Br and Aus) women's refuge/(Am) women's shelter is a house where women whose husbands have been violent towards them can go with their children for protection.妇女庇护所She has applied to do a postgraduate course in women's studies (= a course of studies which deals with women in history, society and literature).她已经申请学习妇女问题研究方面的研究生课程。(saying) 'A woman's work is never done'. “女人永远有做不完的事”"A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke" (Rudyard Kipling in the poem The Betrothal, 1888)“女人只是女人，好的雪茄却能过瘾”（选自拉迪亚德·吉卜林的诗《订婚》）"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" (believed to have been said by the feminist Gloria Steinem, 1934-)“一个没有男人的女人就像是一条鱼少了自行车”（据信为男女平等主义者格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆所言）"Little Women" (title of a book by Louisa M. Alcott, 1868)《小妇人》（路易莎·M．奥尔科特所写的一本书的标题）"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his."(from the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 1895) “所有的女人都变得与她们的母亲一样。那是她们的悲剧。没有男人会这样。那是男人的悲剧。”（选自奥斯卡·王尔德的戏剧《认真的重要》）'Woman'is the general word for an adult female human being.成年妇女的统称 [WOMANKIND, WOMENFOLK]
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