英语词汇“the sterner sex”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. the sterner (also†better, †rougher, stronger) sex: the male sex, men. Now rare.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the stronger sex).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively

wapman-kinc1175

manc1300

menkinda1470

mankind1526

manhood1588

mens-kind1592

the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608

lords of creation1649

menfolk1749

masculinity1860

1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 27 Nature hath more enabled the stronger sexe to vndergoe this burthen.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 22 Whiles the better sex seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin.

1702 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 4) ii. 82 A Queen, whose incomparable Wisdom will ever be admired by future Ages, as..a Pattern to Princes of the better Sex.

1724 Love upon Tick 18 Whatever Influence, Age, or Infirmities, may have on one, and that the rougher sex, yet the Impressions made on the other are so deep [etc.].

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 254 Divest the rougher sex of female airs.

1819 J. Foster Contrib. Eclectic Rev. (1844) I. 508 It was not..thought too much for persons of the stronger sex, to go and return many miles on foot.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. ix I abide by the general opinion, that he is of the rougher sex.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 312 ‘Mama’ is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex?

1861 Southern Literary Messenger May 397/2 It is perhaps from utter despair..that so many of the better sex have..perpetrated of late years so many extravagancies in that region [sc. the north].

1915 New Fun 12 June 11/2 Now, through not taking a man's part, we have turned them into a weaker sex, and it is we girl-boys who are the stronger sex.

1927 Bright Ideas for Entertaining (rev. ed.) 233 If women are to do men's work in the world, the occupations of the sterner sex must change also and become those formerly handled by women.

2005 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 5 Sept. King Parikshit and maybe King Janaka restore our faith in the sterner sex somewhat, but..the draw of the novel lies in the strength of its women.

单词	the sterner sex
释义	> as lemmas the sterner (also†better, †rougher, stronger) sex c. the sterner (also†better, †rougher, stronger) sex: the male sex, men. Now rare.In more recent use often ironical or humorous, but also sometimes offensive (when the phrase may be viewed as implying that women are inferior to men, as with the stronger sex). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively wapman-kinc1175 manc1300 menkinda1470 mankind1526 manhood1588 mens-kind1592 the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608 lords of creation1649 menfolk1749 masculinity1860 1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 27 Nature hath more enabled the stronger sexe to vndergoe this burthen. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 22 Whiles the better sex seek prey abroad, the women (therein like themselves) keep home and spin. 1702 G. Miège New State Eng. (ed. 4) ii. 82 A Queen, whose incomparable Wisdom will ever be admired by future Ages, as..a Pattern to Princes of the better Sex. 1724 Love upon Tick 18 Whatever Influence, Age, or Infirmities, may have on one, and that the rougher sex, yet the Impressions made on the other are so deep [etc.]. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 254 Divest the rougher sex of female airs. 1819 J. Foster Contrib. Eclectic Rev. (1844) I. 508 It was not..thought too much for persons of the stronger sex, to go and return many miles on foot. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. Introd. Ep. p. ix I abide by the general opinion, that he is of the rougher sex. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 312 ‘Mama’ is rather a misanthropist, is she not? Not the best opinion of the sterner sex? 1861 Southern Literary Messenger May 397/2 It is perhaps from utter despair..that so many of the better sex have..perpetrated of late years so many extravagancies in that region [sc. the north]. 1915 New Fun 12 June 11/2 Now, through not taking a man's part, we have turned them into a weaker sex, and it is we girl-boys who are the stronger sex. 1927 Bright Ideas for Entertaining (rev. ed.) 233 If women are to do men's work in the world, the occupations of the sterner sex must change also and become those formerly handled by women. 2005 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 5 Sept. King Parikshit and maybe King Janaka restore our faith in the sterner sex somewhat, but..the draw of the novel lies in the strength of its women. extracted from sexn.¹ < as lemmas
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