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

preg·nant¹

(prĕgnənt)

adj.

1. Carrying developing offspring within the body.

a. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses.

b. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland" (New York).

3. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future" (Robert Conquest).

4. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive.

5. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

pregnant·ly adv.

单词	pregnant
释义	preg·nant¹ (prĕgnənt) adj. 1. Carrying developing offspring within the body. 2. a. Weighty or significant; full of meaning: a conversation occasionally punctuated by pregnant pauses. b. Of great or potentially great import, implication, or moment: "It was a politically pregnant time in Poland" (New York). 3. Filled or fraught; replete: "This was, from the Party's point of view, both deplorable in itself and pregnant with danger for the future" (Robert Conquest). 4. Having a profusion of ideas; creative or inventive. 5. Producing results; fruitful: a pregnant decision. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praegnāns, praegnant-, variant of praegnās; see genə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] pregnant·ly adv.
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