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woman-year

/woom-uhn-yeer/US // ˈwʊm ənˌyɪər //

妇女年,女人年

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of woman-days in a year of work.

Examples

  • A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.

  • However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

  • The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

  • Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.

  • In 2009, a Pakistani Christian woman got into a religious argument with some Muslim women with whom she was harvesting berries.

  • She was also supposed to be the original or model of “the Virtuous Woman” therein portrayed!

  • In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.

  • The aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.

  • There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.

  • I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!