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

P5. Modified by a number or quantifier, forming a phrase used attributively or as an adjective, as two-woman, four-woman: comprising the number of women specified; suitable for or requiring the number of women specified. Cf. one-woman adj. at one adj., n., and pron. Compounds 4.

1858 Cincinnatus 3 402 It is not a small thing to have at one's command a ten-woman-power which, with a touch of the foot and hand, springs into action with a precision which no eye can equal.

1891 Phrenol. Jrnl. June 37/2 At one place I saw a three-woman team with a man for a driver.

1912 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Oct. 953/1 Certainly being a wife is a two-woman job, for if any man got what he thinks are his just deserts in matrimony it would require one wife to look after his physical comfort..and another wife to entertain him and go about with him.

1967 Geogr. Jrnl. 133 596 A four-woman expedition..undertook botanical research and geographical exploration of an area round Krisuvik.

1984 USA Today 6 Apr. 1 c/3 They are members of the..eight-man, three-woman USA boardsailing team training here together.

2001 High Country News 26 Mar. 9/3 Long and I were a two-woman brigade, helping to save the salmon: I pulled from the sack, I slung, she caught, she flung.

单词	four-woman
释义	> as lemmas four-woman P5. Modified by a number or quantifier, forming a phrase used attributively or as an adjective, as two-woman, four-woman: comprising the number of women specified; suitable for or requiring the number of women specified. Cf. one-woman adj. at one adj., n., and pron. Compounds 4. Π 1858 Cincinnatus 3 402 It is not a small thing to have at one's command a ten-woman-power which, with a touch of the foot and hand, springs into action with a precision which no eye can equal. 1891 Phrenol. Jrnl. June 37/2 At one place I saw a three-woman team with a man for a driver. 1912 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Oct. 953/1 Certainly being a wife is a two-woman job, for if any man got what he thinks are his just deserts in matrimony it would require one wife to look after his physical comfort..and another wife to entertain him and go about with him. 1967 Geogr. Jrnl. 133 596 A four-woman expedition..undertook botanical research and geographical exploration of an area round Krisuvik. 1984 USA Today 6 Apr. 1 c/3 They are members of the..eight-man, three-woman USA boardsailing team training here together. 2001 High Country News 26 Mar. 9/3 Long and I were a two-woman brigade, helping to save the salmon: I pulled from the sack, I slung, she caught, she flung. extracted from womann. < as lemmas
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