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womb-to-tomb

/woom-tuh-toom/US // ˈwum təˈtum //

坟墓到坟墓,子宫到坟墓,胎儿到坟墓,胎儿到墓穴

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : extending from prebirth to death: said especially of care under the National Health Service.

Examples

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.

  • At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.

  • That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.