gestation

noun

/dʒeˈsteɪʃn/

[uncountable, countable] the time that the young of a person or an animal develops inside its mother’s body until it is born; the process of developing inside the mother’s body妊娠（期）；怀孕（期）
- a baby born at 38 weeks’ gestation怀孕 38 周时出生的婴儿
- The gestation period of a horse is about eleven months.马的怀孕期大约为十一个月。
[uncountable] (formal) the process by which an idea or a plan develops（想法、计划的）构思，酝酿，孕育 synonym development
- His book was nearly twenty years in gestation.他的书酝酿了将近20年。

词源mid 16th cent. (denoting ‘an excursion on horseback, in a carriage, etc., considered as exercise’): from Latin gestatio(n-), from gestare ‘carry, carry in the womb’, frequentative of gerere ‘carry’.

词汇	gestation
释义	gestation noun /dʒeˈsteɪʃn/ /dʒeˈsteɪʃn/ [uncountable, countable] the time that the young of a person or an animal develops inside its mother’s body until it is born; the process of developing inside the mother’s body妊娠（期）；怀孕（期） a baby born at 38 weeks’ gestation怀孕 38 周时出生的婴儿 The gestation period of a horse is about eleven months.马的怀孕期大约为十一个月。 [uncountable] (formal) the process by which an idea or a plan develops（想法、计划的）构思，酝酿，孕育 synonym development His book was nearly twenty years in gestation.他的书酝酿了将近20年。词源mid 16th cent. (denoting ‘an excursion on horseback, in a carriage, etc., considered as exercise’): from Latin gestatio(n-), from gestare ‘carry, carry in the womb’, frequentative of gerere ‘carry’.
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