单词 | sex distinction |
释义 | > as lemmassex distinction sex distinction n. ΚΠ a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 199 Sex-Distinctions too are laid aside. The Women wear the Trowsies and the Vest: While Men in Muffs, Fans, Petticoats are drest. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 317 From a state marked by a mere varying of the nuclear elements,..the sex-distinction slowly gathers definition. 1924 W. Lewis in New Statesman 24 May 191/2 The sex distinction has been very much diminished A period of sex-fusion having set in, sex qua sex has lost its importance. 2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. (Culture section) 54 Smith derides conventional sex distinction: ‘She was as brave and handsome and rough as a girl. She was as pretty and delicate and dainty as a boy.’ < as lemmas |
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