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pregnant

/preg-nuhnt/US // ˈprɛg nənt //UK // (ˈprɛɡnənt) //

孕妇,怀孕,怀孕了,怀孕的人

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a child or other offspring developing in the body; with child or young, as a woman or female mammal.
    • : fraught, filled, or abounding: a silence pregnant with suspense.
    • : teeming or fertile; rich: a mind pregnant in ideas.
    • : full of meaning; highly significant: a pregnant utterance.
    • : of great importance or potential; momentous: a pregnant moment in the history of the world.

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Examples

  • The next year, she created her first hypnobirthing program for her pregnant daughter, Maura.

  • She was 16 when she found out she was pregnant after having sex for the first time.

  • Just in the past few days, the WHO has flip-flopped between not recommending pregnant people get the vaccine to fully supporting them in receiving the inoculation.

  • To boot, a survey of 20,000 mothers and pregnant women in June last year by the advocacy group Pregnant Then Screwed highlighted that 15% were made or being made redundant, with 46% of those naming lack of childcare as a factor.

  • However, the pandemic, with its increased risks to pregnant women, seems poised to derail these trends.

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.

  • Helicopters lifted pregnant women and children to safety first.

  • He beat me every day, even when I was seven months pregnant.

  • A dark minivan quickly fills with pregnant women and those carrying infants.

  • And this fact seemed pregnant with evidence as to Gordon's state of mind; it did not appear to simplify the situation.

  • The situation was too pregnant with tragedy for him to run away and leave the pair to deal with it as best they could.

  • Abraham, who was fond of travelling, went into the horrible desert of Kadesh with his pregnant wife, ever young and ever pretty.

  • The Trades Union movement is one pregnant with promise for the future.

  • Its influence was most positive, and pregnant with good at that critical period between school and manhood.