Male
[meɪl] or [mel]
解释:
(noun.) an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova).
(noun.) the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands.
(noun.) a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies.
(adj.) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; 'a male infant'; 'a male holly tree' .
(adj.) for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys; 'the male lead'; 'the male population' .
(adj.) characteristic of a man; 'a deep male voice'; 'manly sports' .
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解释:
(a.) Evil; wicked; bad.
(n.) Same as Mail, a bag.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
(v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
(v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
(v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
(v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
(n.) An animal of the male sex.
(n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
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同义词及近义词：
a. He.
n. Male animal.
录入:纳塔莉亚
解释:
adj. masculine: pertaining to the sex that begets (not bears) young: (bot.) bearing stamens.—n. one of the male sex: a he-animal: a stamen-bearing plant.—n. Male′-fern an elegant fern with the fronds growing in a crown.—Male order in architecture the Doric order; Male rhymes those in which only the final syllables correspond; Male screw a screw whose threads correspond to and enter the spiral grooves of the female screw.
n. (Spens.) mail armour.
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娱乐性解释：
n. A member of the unconsidered or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
编辑:罗比
例句:
- The three persons were Miss Abbey and two male guests. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The whole staff of instructors, male and female, he set aside, and stood on the examiner's estrade alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- If the male relations of Madame Rigaud had put themselves forward openly, I should have known how to deal with them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It wasn't any impudence from any of them male paupers as--' 'No, no, love! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- There was a curious hostility in male, outlawed understanding between the two men. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Your uncle is your nearest male relative, and the head of the family. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Robert is no puppy or male flirt; I can vouch for that. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The Old Man is the only fully adult male in the little group. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Each lady contributor takes it in her turn to keep the basket a month, to sew for it, and to foist off its contents on a shrinking male public. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Was not the selection of the male guardians determined by differences of this sort? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This walk was common to all the male members of Sleary's company, and was understood to express, that they were always on horseback. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Pius quaestus, says old Cato, stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- As the wind had set for several days from the female to the male tree, the pollen could not thus have been carried. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The most vigorous males, or those which have most successfully struggled with their conditions of life, will generally leave most progeny. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- As the din of the drum rose to almost deafening volume Kerchak sprang into the open space between the squatting males and the drummers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- They were four in number, two males and two females. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Generally, the most vigorous males, those which are best fitted for their places in nature, will leave most progeny. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- No, he said, they share alike; the only difference between them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- When we three males were left alone after dinner, he got into a more adventurous state. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The other males scattered in all directions, but not before the infuriated brute had felt the vertebra of one snap between his great, foaming jaws. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then, as one, the males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The war is, perhaps, severest between the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided with special weapons. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- With animals having separated sexes, there will be in most cases a struggle between the males for the possession of the females. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- When all the adult males had joined in the thin line of circling dancers the attack commenced. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The case is the same with the transmission of the honours and fortune through a succession of males without their passing through any female. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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