喜樂美語
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    This word has two related ideas. First, it means the time in a man's life after he stops being a boy - when he is grown up. Second, it means the qualities that people think a 'real man' should have, like being brave, strong, or responsible. People sometimes use it in speeches or old stories, like 'he reached manhood' or 'a test of manhood.' It can sound a bit old-fashioned or formal today; in daily talk people usually just say 'become a man' or 'grow up.'

    男子氣概；(also) 成年男子的身分

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組成man + hood. '-hood' is a piece added to a word to mean 'the state or time of being that thing' - you see it in 'childhood' and 'neighborhood' too.

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原始詞典資料6 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。

manhoodnoun/ˈmænhʊd/

  • 1

    The state or condition of being a human being.

    • He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.
    • Thou seemest human and divine, ⁠The highest, holiest manhood, thou.
  • 2

    The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary.

    • He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.
    • Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
  • 3

    All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively.

    • (exclusively and universally: only synonymous in cases for which women are excluded, and when the meaning of manhood is universal or worldwide)
    • During the Second World War, Russia lost a great percentage of its young manhood, giving rise to a great wave of widowhood in the country.
  • 4

    The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively.

    • My goodness, James certainly is a prime example of manhood, isn't he?
    • Traditionally, men sought to enhance the manhood of their young sons, so that they would become manly men, but in general, men no longer do so.
  • 5

    The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.

    • The failure of William's business seems to have been quite damaging to his manhood.
    • I feel that when you boss me around, you insult my manhood.
  • 6

    The male genitalia, especially the penis.

    • She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.
    • In the course of a journey the Rabbis [...] came across a young man who had been robbed of his manhood and made a eunuch by a certain witch.

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。