单词 | s/he |
释义 | s/hepron.2 Used as a third person singular subject pronoun to include both genders: he or she. Π 1871 Amer. Educ. Monthly Apr. 190 Exceptions taken..to the common combination, ‘female prayer-meeting’. Some wise body discovered that a meeting was without sex, and at once cried out against the impropriety; chiefly, we suppose, because [s]he did not like the word female, and wished to be rid of it. 1882 Present Age 9 Mar. 147/2 The Prairie Farmer, having occasion to speak of the unknown writer of a communication which bore both masculine and feminine characteristics, expressed the doubtful sex by using the form (s)he. 1908 Camera Feb. 42 S-he seems to think that..all photography is simplicity. 1921 Missions Code (Foreign Missions Conference North America) 5 Do not think s–he (they) would accept. 1973 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Dec. 1/5 Bowing to women's lib, the Service Employes Union replaces the pronoun ‘he’ in its new steward's manual with the term ‘s/he’. 1978 Amer. Educator Winter 65 A child's sexual orientation is determined before s/he enters school. 1982 Benedicta! Fall 13 Can s/he figure out your address? 2004 Cadence May 31/1 Whoever this player is, s/he has been influenced by players like McCoy Tyner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < pron.21871 |
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