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(of a woman or female animal 女人或雌性动物 having a baby or young animal developing inside her/its body 妊娠的；怀孕的 My wife is pregnant. 我妻子怀孕了。 - pregnant with…
I was pregnant with our third child at the time. 当时我正怀着我们的第三个孩子。 a heavily pregnant woman (= one whose baby is nearly ready to be born) 临产期孕妇 to get/become/fall pregnant 怀孕 He got his girlfriend pregnant and they're getting married. 他让女友怀孕了，因此他们即将结婚。 She's six months pregnant. 她怀孕六个月了。
Collocations ChildrenChildren 孩子 Having a baby/child 怀孕 - want a baby/a child/kids
想要孩子 - start a family
生孩子 - conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
怀孕 - miss your period
月经未按期来 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
怀孕了；发现怀孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一个宝宝／一个孩子／孩子／一个儿子／一个女儿／一对双胞胎／孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常／历经艰难／意外怀孕；顺产；难产；在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩；催产 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流产；引起流产 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一个孩子／一个宝宝／一个女儿／一个儿子／一对双胞胎
Parenting 养育；抚养；教养 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
抚养孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顾小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
换尿布；给婴儿换尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子；给孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂养孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有权利休／正在休产假／陪产假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
产假后回到工作岗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要／找到一个临时保姆／负担得起的高质量儿童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡／兼顾工作与照顾小孩／抚养小孩／家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子；给孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
惩罚／管教／娇惯孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收养小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩给人收养 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代养小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交给寄养父母；由寄养父母抚养
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesb2She was pregnant by a former client. 她怀上了以前一位客户的孩子。 She was pregnant with twins. 她怀上了双胞胎。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- become
- …
- heavily
- very
- visibly
- …
- by
- with
- six weeks, three months, etc. pregnant
- pregnant with something (formal)
full of a quality or feeling 饱含；充溢着
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin praegnant-, probably from prae ‘before’ + the base of gnasci ‘be born’.
Idioms
a pregnant pause/silence
an occasion when nobody speaks, although people are aware that there are feelings or thoughts to express 耐人寻味的停顿；心照不宣的沉默 There was a pregnant pause before she replied. 在她回答之前，有一段意味深长的停顿。