- 1nC1
/ˈprɛɡnənsi/
The time when a woman has a baby growing inside her body, before it is born.
懷孕／孕期
複數 pregnancies
核心畫面
Picture the whole stretch of time between the beginning of a baby and its birth — not the moment, but the months. The word names that period as one thing you can count, plan around, and talk about as a state someone is in.
可以想成：從一個寶寶開始存在，到他出生為止的那一整段時間——重點不是某一個瞬間，而是中間那幾個月。這個字把那段期間當…更多收起
可以想成：從一個寶寶開始存在，到他出生為止的那一整段時間——重點不是某一個瞬間，而是中間那幾個月。這個字把那段期間當成一個可以計算、可以安排、也可以拿來描述一個人現在處於什麼狀態的整體。原始詞典資料3 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。
pregnancynoun/ˈpɹɛɡnənsi/
- 1
The condition of being pregnant; an instance of this.
- News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
- Viable non-malformed singleton pregnancies were selected for cerebellar measurements; transcerebellar diameter, (TCD), left and right cerebellar diameters (LCD, RCD).
- 2
The period of time this condition prevails.
- 3
The progression of stages from conception to birth.
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。