preg‧nant S3 / preɡnənt / 形容词

1 if a woman or female animal is pregnant, she has an unborn baby growing inside her body → pregnancy :

medical care for pregnant women

I knew right away that I was pregnant.

I thought I was too old to get pregnant .

twenty weeks/three months etc pregnant

She’s about five months pregnant.

pregnant with

Maria was pregnant with her second child.

I didn’t mean to get her pregnant (= make her pregnant ) .

His wife was heavily pregnant (= almost ready to give birth ) .

2 pregnant pause/silence a pause or silence which is full of meaning or emotion :

He stopped, and there was a pregnant pause.

3 pregnant with something formal containing a lot of a quality :

Every 短语 in this poem is pregnant with meaning.

COLLOCATIONS

动词

become pregnant Sally became pregnant, and gave birth to a baby son.

get pregnant informal (= become pregnant ) She got pregnant when she was sixteen.

get somebody pregnant (= make a woman pregnant, usually without planning to ) At least he didn’t get you pregnant.

副词

twelve weeks pregnant/two months pregnant etc The doctor said that she was eight weeks pregnant.

heavily pregnant (= having almost reached the time when you will give birth ) I saw at once that the woman was heavily pregnant.