| 单词 | men |
| 释义 | men (once / 7 pages) n Use the word men to mean "more than one man." If you use the men's bathroom, you'll probably find more than one man there. The men on a job, like farmhands or factory laborers, make up a workforce, and they can be male or female and still be called men. You might also use this word to mean "members of a team" or "members of a military platoon." Men comes from man, which in the original Old English was completely gender neutral, meaning "human being" or "person," rather than specifically "male person." WORD FAMILYmen: mens+/foreman: foremanship, foremen/man: foreman, maned, manful, manhood, maning, manlike, manly, manned, manning, mannish, mans, men, superman, unman/manful: manfuler, manfully, manfulness, unmanful/manhood: manhoods/manlike: manlikely, unmanlike/manliness: manlinesss/manly: manlier, manliest, manliness, unmanly/manned: undermanned/mannish: mannishly/superman: supermen/unman: unmanned, unmanning, unmans/unmanful: unmanfully/unmanly: unmanliness USAGE EXAMPLESDriving away from the scene, the men say little about the ordeal aside from nervous small talk. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The men learn to fire a Kalashnikov rifle and Makarov pistol, apply a tourniquet and storm a room in tactical formation. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Two men, in flannel and jeans and overalls, holding hands. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) n the force of workers available Syn|Hypo|Hyper hands, manpower, work force, workforce complement, full complement number needed to make up a whole force company, ship's companycrew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship force, personnel group of people willing to obey orders |
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