| 单词 | the fair sex |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex a. the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex: the female sex, women. Similarly †the devout sex, †the woman sex, the second sex.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 weak sex). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > women collectively wifkinOE womanOE womankinc1175 womankindc1175 womenkina1387 womenkinda1387 womanhoodc1405 feminityc1425 femininityc1450 femininec1451 the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 the second sex1536 the woman sex1536 feminie1541 mesdames1552 the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578 sex1589 ladyhooda1666 fair1687 wimmin1710 womenfolk1729 mesdemoiselles1739 the female of the species1795 femalitiesc1801 ladykind1829 womanity1836 womandom1838 ladydom1843 petticoatery1849 tea-body1865 muslin1884 the skirt1899 quim1909 womyn1975 womxn1991 the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > talk about something specified the fair (also gentle, soft, weak, etc.) sex1536 1536 P. Melancthon Confessyon of Fayth of Germaynes f. 24 This happenyd also..in Monasteries of women..not withstonding that the weake sexe or kynde ought more to haue ben spared. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Eviiv The magnificency & liberalitie of that gentle sex.] 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H4 I am bound by a strong vow to kisse all of the woman sex I meet this morning. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 246 The Pillar..at which the devout sex are always rubbing their Chaplets. 1688–9 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 294 Lovers and courters of the fair sex. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. Ded. sig. A2 To the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex, the Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 435 The King insults the Goddess as she flies..Go, let thy own soft Sex employ thy Care. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xxiv. 142 The fair Sex have now nothing to do but dress and paint. 1801 Port Folio 23 May 166/3 I prefer the favours of the fair sex to the company of the soakers, and so there is an end to all drinking. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IV cviii. 125 Benign ceruleans of the second sex! Who advertise new poems by your looks. 1836 W. Irving Widow's Ordeal in Magnolia for 1837 257 It is somewhat remarkable that..the gentler sex should have been most frequently the subjects of these rude trials. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. iv. vi. 14 In addition to those qualities which please the softer sex, Legard was a good whist-player. 1896 J. K. Bangs House-boat on Styx vii. 86 But go along and have your ladies' day here, and never mind my reasons for preferring my own society to that of the fair sex. 1928 D. K. Parker tr. Schopenhauer: Selections 443 Women..form the sexus sequior—the second sex. 1953 H. M. Parshley tr. S. de Beauvoir (title) The second sex. 1974 J. Mitchell Psychoanal. & Feminism ii. ii. 306 Woman is the archetype of the oppressed consciousness: the second sex. 1996 L. Lowndes How to make Anyone fall in Love with You xxxvi. 217 Another gentle habit of the gentle sex that, unfortunately, drives men stark raving berserk. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 June 44/3 The translation is sometimes old-fashioned (who now describes women as ‘the fair sex’?). < as lemmas |
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