Gender
['dʒendə] or ['dʒɛndɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness.
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Kind; sort.
(n.) Sex, male or female.
(n.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.
(n.) To beget; to engender.
(v. i.) To copulate; to breed.
編輯:莉齐
解釋/意思:
n. kind esp. with regard to sex: (gram.) the distinction of nouns according to sex.
v.t. to beget.—v.i. (B.) to copulate.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Now dogs are not divided into hes and shes--we do not take the masculine gender out to hunt and leave the females at home to look after their puppies. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- No,' said Mr Fledgeby, 'Gender--is ever what a man is bound to listen to, and I wish it rested with myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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