With Childとは 意味・読み方・使い方

前置詞句

with child

1. (euphemistic) Pregnant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pregnant

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 118:

     [N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]

   • 1994, Mark Kalbfeld, René Echevarria, “Firstborn”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 21, Michael Dorn and Barbara March (actors):

     Worf: I was not aware you had a son.
     Lursa: I do not. But I am with child.

   • 1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:

     I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.

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