| 释义 |
personkind, n. orig. U.S.|ˌpɜːsənˈkaɪnd|
[f. person n. + mankind n.]
The human race; = humankind n.
Used as a deliberately non-sexist substitute for mankind n. Cf. person n. 2 g.
1972Time 23 Oct. 79 Readers and writers of both sexes must resist onefully any meaningless neologisms. To do less is to encourage another manifestation of prejudice—against reason, meaning and eventually personkind itself. 1976Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 6 Television, he said, was quite simply ‘about personkind’ (American, apparently, for ‘mankind’). 1984Austral. Personal Computer Jan. 96/1 The personal computer is, perhaps, the worst thing that ever happened to personkind. 1986Video Today Apr. 36/2 Sonja fights for her life and the lives of all personkind. |