喜樂美語
  1. 1nC1/ˈprɛɡnənsi/懷孕／孕期

    The time when a woman has a baby growing inside her body, before it is born.

    示範例句 · Example

    During her pregnancy, Mei's mum ate lots of healthy food.

    逐字在她的懷孕期間，美的媽媽吃了很多健康的食物。

    「pregnancy」是名詞，指「女性肚子裡有寶寶、還沒出生的那段時間」，也就是懷孕的狀態或整個孕期。形容詞是 pregnant（懷孕的），pregnancy 是它的名詞。可以想成從懷上到生產之間的整段期間。

    常見搭配

    • during pregnancy

      在懷孕期間

      in the time when someone is pregnant

      Doctors say to eat well during pregnancy.

    • pregnancy test

      驗孕

      a test to find out if someone is pregnant

      She bought a pregnancy test at the pharmacy.

    • early pregnancy

      懷孕初期

      the first weeks of being pregnant

      Some people feel tired in early pregnancy.

    意思相近

    expecting

core核心畫面

Picture the whole stretch of time between the beginning of a baby and its birth — not the moment, but the months. The word names that period as one thing you can count, plan around, and talk about as a state someone is in.

可以想成：從一個寶寶開始存在，到他出生為止的那一整段時間——重點不是某一個瞬間，而是中間那幾個月。這個字把那段期間當成一個可以計算、可以安排、也可以拿來描述一個人現在處於什麼狀態的整體。

同家族的字

複數 pregnancies

意思相近

expecting

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pregnancynoun/ˈpɹɛɡnənsi/

  • 1

    The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.

    • News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
    • Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).
  • 2

    The period of time this condition prevails.

  • 3

    The progression of stages from conception to birth.

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