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Gestation is the time a baby, or baby animal, spends developing inside its mother before being born - human gestation is usually about nine months. The word is also used more broadly for any idea or project that takes time to develop before it is "born", like "the plan had a long gestation", meaning it took a long time to come together.
懷孕期、妊娠期;(引申)醞釀期
組成From Latin "gestare", meaning "to carry".
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gestationnoun/d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/
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The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
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The process of development of a plan or idea.
- It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。