| 正面 | 112.woman 英 ['wʊmən]美 ['wʊmən]     |
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| 背面 |      释义： 1. 谐音“无man”-----也就是“无男人”，那自然就全是女人、妇女了，想想“女儿国”吧，要是咱身在女儿国得多幸福啊！想想都觉得爽啊！啪！小强你这贱人又开始YY了！n. 妇女；女性；成年女子 例句： 1. When the right woman comes along, this bad dream will be over.当有合适的女人出现时，这种胡思乱想就会停止了。 woman 女人缩写自古英语wifman,女人，wif-,女人，词源同wife,man,人。 womanwoman: [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, wifewoman (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." |