| 单词 | a room of one's own |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa room of one's own P10. a room of one's own: a room or place to oneself, as a symbol of independence, privacy, autonomy, etc.In the 20th cent. frequently with reference to women, with allusion to A Room of One's Own, an essay by Virginia Woolf (see quot. 1929). ΚΠ 1869 H. Kingsley Stretton ix. 33/2 I should think..that almost the first ambition of every clever woman was to have a room of her own, a place where she was mistress, and could do as she pleased. 1882 M. Grant in Lamp 22 221/2 Even let one be clotheless and foodless, it is yet something to have a room of one's own in which one may starve, if starvation is inevitable, in an independent sort of way. 1929 V. Woolf Room of One's Own i. 6 A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. 1948 E. B. Phelps et al. Public Health Engin. I. ii. 25 Some opportunity for privacy—‘a room of one's own’ or its nearest possible equivalent—is an essential need for emotional health. 1989 J. Perkin Women & Marriage in 19th Cent. Eng. (2002) xii. 257 A room of one's own was hard to find in the gilded cage, even in the happiest of marriages; a life of one's own still harder. 1996 E. L. McDonagh Breaking Abortion Deadlock ix. 181 While the law protects the idea that a ‘man's home is his castle’, women have long sought for merely the right to have a ‘room of one's own’ within it. 2001 tr. A.-W. Scheer Start-ups are Easy 50 A room of one's own. For a newly founded company, its first office is of course one of the most important indicators of independence. < as lemmas |
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