gender /ˈdʒɛndə/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-VAR A person's gender is the fact that they are male or female. 性别

  例：

  Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.

  女性有时仅仅因为她们的性别而被剥夺机会。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender. 性

  例：

  While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender.

  她的观察对某些男人可能是对的，但并不适用于所有男性。

• 3. 

  N-VAR In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word's gender can affect its form and behaviour. In English, only personal pronouns such as "she," reflexive pronouns such as "itself," and possessive determiners such as "his" have gender. (语法上的) 性

  例：

  In both Welsh and Irish the word for "moon" is of feminine gender.

  在威尔士语和爱尔兰语中，“月亮”这个单词都是阴性。