| 词汇 | domesticity |
| 释义 | domesticity noun[ U ] uk /ˌdəʊ.mesˈtɪs.ə.ti/ us /ˌdoʊ.mesˈtɪs.ə.t̬i/ life at home taking care of your house and family: 持家，家庭生活 She married young and settled happily into domesticity.她结婚早并且家庭幸福。 Home a roof over your headidiom abode accommodation bolthole crib domestic domestically fold give something/someone houseroomphrase habitation hangout harem hearth non-home pad premises rabbit hutch residence residential roof domesticity | American Dictionarydomesticity noun[ U ] us/ˌdoʊ·meˈstɪs·ɪ·t̬i, -mə-/ the state of being at home a lot with your family: Since they had their baby, they’ve settled happily into domesticity. Examples of domesticitydomesticity They included domesticity, conduct, suburbia and, in the twentieth century, social science and the state. They point out that women were often taken to personify the conservative domesticity against which these men were rebelling. The doubling of props was further matched by the characters' frequent transitions between the worlds of domesticity and fable. It becomes evident that assumptions of domesticity, separation from the public, and inferior valuation of the private are distortions of the ethnographic reality. The interest in hygiene intersected with a maternalist discourse that inculcated the values of domesticity and celebrated the virtues of motherhood. She wrote about oppressive domesticity during an era that advocated social progress, yet largely refused to grant women the privileges of this progress. To have wives living in various modified forms of seclusion and domesticity in the city signals higher social status. The small home proprietors that we interviewed were anxious to maintain the domesticity and comfort of their homes for themselves, their families and their residents. Her realization of her only partial liberation is directly associated with her interest in exploring the constraints of domesticity upon women. Malthusian theories (specifically "moral restraint") were popularly characterized as irreligious and as a threat to conventional domesticity. The lyric voice abruptly breaks off its affective rhapsody of hopeful domesticity in the surrounding poems, to listen to another tune. It perhaps helped that the traditional image of a good grandmother, providing constant support and encouragement and sustaining food, encompasses this practical domesticity.$! Middle-class residents were anxious to demarcate themselves from the working class, and sought to do so by retreating into private suburban domesticity. All of which serves to remind us that although the language of domesticity implied privacy, it was not necessarily synonymous with female seclusion and confinement. Only the most carefully circumscribed sort of domesticity can be admitted, one which at least ostensibly makes male desire and vocation congruent with female self-sacrice. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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