new woman
new woman — 名詞
1. a woman, especially in the late 1800s, who rejected the limits society placed on
新女性
十九世紀末追求獨立、打破傳統角色的女性
a woman, especially in the late 1800s, who rejected the limits society placed on women and wanted the freedom to study, work, and live as fully as men did
In 1895, Élise cycled to her office, a new woman who refused to stay home.
一八九五年，Élise 騎腳踏車去上班，是個拒絕待在家裡的新女性。
new woman as an appositive naming a person's type
The novel's heroine, Yara, studies medicine and travels alone like a new woman.
小說女主角 Yara 學醫、獨自旅行，就像個新女性。
like a new woman — simile comparing a person to the type
Our history teacher explained how the new woman shocked polite society in the 1890s.
歷史老師解釋了新女性如何在一八九〇年代震驚了上流社會。
Magazines in 1900 mocked new women who wore trousers and rode bicycles.
一九〇〇年的雜誌嘲笑那些穿長褲、騎腳踏車的新女性。
Many called Kwame's grandmother a new woman because she opened her own shop.
很多人稱 Kwame 的祖母為新女性，因為她開了自己的店。
- feminist
broader; anyone supporting women's equal rights, in any era
- suffragette
narrower; a woman who specifically campaigned for the vote
- bluestocking
older, slightly mocking term for a bookish, learned woman
文法句型
a/the new woman
new women
用法筆記
Often capitalized as 'the New Woman' when it names the specific late-Victorian social type rather than describing any modern, independent woman today.