英语词汇“pregnant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pregnant

/ˈprɛɡnənt

adjective

1(Of a woman or female animal) having a child or young developing in the uterus: she was heavily pregnant with her second child she was six months pregnant...

The practice of screening all pregnant women for syphilis in every pregnancy should continue.
In the United Kingdom over a quarter of pregnant women who smoke continue to do so during pregnancy.
Back at the centre there is a call from a young pregnant woman requiring telephone advice.

Synonyms

expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child;

French enceinte

informal expecting, in the family way, expecting a happy event, preggers, preggy, with a bun in the oven, with one in the oven, up the pole

British informal in the club, up the duff, in the pudding club, up the spout, up the stick

North American informal knocked up, having swallowed a watermelon seed

Australian informal preggo, clucky, with a joey in the pouch

informal, dated in trouble, in pod

archaic with child, heavy/big with child, in a delicate condition, in an interesting condition, childing, on the way

technical gravid, parturient

rare impregnate

North American rare infanticipating, storked

(be pregnant with) expect, carry, bear

2Full of meaning; significant or suggestive: a pregnant pause a development pregnant with implications...

This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all.
The direction perks up in the second half but overall allows too many pregnant pauses by the actors.
Fortunately, Shane comes to the rescue with a well timed pregnant pause - or is he asleep?

Synonyms

filled, charged, heavy, fraught, replete, teeming;

full of, abounding in, rich in

meaningful, significant, eloquent;

suggestive, expressive, loaded, meaning, charged, pointed, telling, revealing, weighty

Derivatives

pregnantly

/ˈprɛɡnəntli/ adverb ...

He paused pregnantly and then added: ‘I genuinely mean that.'
The audio is a perfectly timed machine-noise fugue that pops, clicks, squawks and, every so often, pauses pregnantly.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin praegnant-, probably from prae 'before' + the base of gnasci 'be born'.

单词	pregnant
释义	pregnant /ˈprɛɡnənt / adjective 1(Of a woman or female animal) having a child or young developing in the uterus: she was heavily pregnant with* her second child* she was six months pregnant... The practice of screening all pregnant women for syphilis in every pregnancy should continue. In the United Kingdom over a quarter of pregnant women who smoke continue to do so during pregnancy. Back at the centre there is a call from a young pregnant woman requiring telephone advice. Synonyms expecting a baby, having a baby, with a baby on the way, having a child, expectant, carrying a child; French enceinte informal expecting, in the family way, expecting a happy event, preggers, preggy, with a bun in the oven, with one in the oven, up the pole British informal in the club, up the duff, in the pudding club, up the spout, up the stick North American informal knocked up, having swallowed a watermelon seed Australian informal preggo, clucky, with a joey in the pouch informal, dated in trouble, in pod archaic with child, heavy/big with child, in a delicate condition, in an interesting condition, childing, on the way technical gravid, parturient rare impregnate North American rare infanticipating, storked (be pregnant with) expect, carry, bear 2Full of meaning; significant or suggestive: a pregnant pause a development pregnant with* implications... This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all. The direction perks up in the second half but overall allows too many pregnant pauses by the actors. Fortunately, Shane comes to the rescue with a well timed pregnant pause - or is he asleep? Synonyms filled, charged, heavy, fraught, replete, teeming; full of, abounding in, rich in meaningful, significant, eloquent; suggestive, expressive, loaded, meaning, charged, pointed, telling, revealing, weighty Derivatives pregnantly /ˈprɛɡnəntli/ adverb ... He paused pregnantly and then added: ‘I genuinely mean that.' The audio is a perfectly timed machine-noise fugue that pops, clicks, squawks and, every so often, pauses pregnantly. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin praegnant-, probably from prae* 'before' + the base of gnasci 'be born'. Rhymes regnant
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pregnant

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pregnantly

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