maternity

maternity

英 [mə'tɜːnɪtɪ]
　　美 [mə'tɝnəti]

n. 母性，母道；[婦產] 婦產科醫院
　　adj. 產科的；產婦的，孕婦的

中文詞源：

maternity 母親身份，懷孕

來自maternal,母親的，-ity,名詞後綴。比喻用法。

例句：

1. Your job will be kept open for your return after maternity leave.
你的工作會一直保留到你休完產假回來。

2. The boy was born at the city's maternity hospital.
這個男孩出生在市婦產醫院。

3. Maternity services were to be reduced in consequence of falling birth rates.
由於出生率下降，產科服務會隨之削減。

4. Toronto hospital maternity wards were filled to capacity.
多倫多醫院的產房都已住滿瞭。

5. Morisot had experienced maternity herself.
莫裡佐也曾為人母。