| 释义 |
sexualize, v.|ˈsɛksjuːəlaɪz|
[f. sexual a. + -ize.]
trans. To make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to.
1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 462/2 The French [language]..has no resources for elevating its diction... The single misfortune of having no neuter gender,..by sexualising in all cases, neutralises the effect. 1876Fairbairn Stud. Philos. Relig. 31 The bright divinity of Heaven may have been sexualized and married to a goddess of Heaven before [etc.]. 1900Postgate Pref. to Mrs. H. Cust's Transl. Bréal's Semantics 12 Even in the case of animals the sexualizing, if I may so call it, of the endings -us and -a was by no means complete. |