Sex
[seks] or [sɛks]
解释:
(noun.) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; 'she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus'.
(noun.) all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses; 'he wanted a better sex life'; 'the film contained no sex or violence'.
(noun.) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided; 'the war between the sexes'.
(verb.) tell the sex (of young chickens).
格雷戈里录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of properties or qualities by which male is distinguished from female.
(n.) One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.
(n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.
(n.) One of the groups founded on this distinction.
艾米编辑
解释:
n. the distinction between male and female: the characteristics by which an animal or plant is male or female gender: the female sex women generally usually with the definite article.—adj. Sex′less having no sex.—n. Sex′lessness.—adj. Sex′ūal pertaining to sex: distinguished or founded on the sex: relating to the distinct organs of the sexes.—v.t. Sex′ūalise to distinguish as sexed.—ns. Sex′ūalist one who classifies plants according to the differences of the sexes; Sexūal′ity state or quality of being sexual.—adv. Sex′ūally.—Sexual affinity the instinctive attraction of one sex for another; Sexual organs the organs of generation; Sexual selection that province of natural selection in which sex comes into play.
n. (eccles.) the office of the sixth hour originally said at midday: (mus.) the interval of a sixth.—adj. Sex′tan recurring every sixth day.
整理:苏西
例句:
- But practical sense told them that sex cannot be confined within marriage. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life--and her's? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- 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.
- A wife, a modest young lady, with the purely appreciative, unambitious abilities of her sex, is sure to think her husband's mind powerful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Do you remember the sex of the child? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- To every right-feeling person of my own sex, volumes could say no more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- I will give only one, as likewise illustrating one step in the separation of the sexes of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- From this trivial and anatomical observation is derived that vast difference betwixt the education and duties of the two sexes. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Does the degree and direction of the instinct markedly differ among different individuals or races, or between the two sexes? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- 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.
- Has not nature scattered all the qualities which our citizens require indifferently up and down among the two sexes? 柏拉图. 理想国.
录入:保拉