单词 | the opposite sex |
释义 | > as lemmasthe opposite sex b. With the: that is opposed to something else; contrary. Also (of two related things): other, esp. in the opposite sex: women as opposed to men (or vice versa). ΚΠ 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (1625) i. 67 In Epistles Exhorting or Perswading, the intended vertue of goodnesse of every thing is more amply set forth by the opposite evill. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum ii. xxxvii. 109 It is the defect, and recesse of the opposite facultie: as, blindnesse taketh away the faculty and act of seeing. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 12 Finds never any fault in their owne side, nor vertue in the opposite. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 99. ¶3 Nothing makes a Woman more esteemed by the opposite Sex than Chastity. 1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 75/1 To support the re-election, lest any candidate in the opposite interest should have been..attempted to be surprized upon the county. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 279 After the king's death, you continued in office under the opposite faction. 1881 H. James Washington Square xxxiv. 252 If it was too large for a pair of unpretending gentlewomen, this was better than the opposite fault; for Catherine had no desire to find herself in closer quarters with her aunt. 1942 Ann. Math. Statistics 13 264 We shall refer to this situation..as the parametric case, and denote the opposite case..as the non-parametric case. 1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 77/1 An equally strong case can be made for the opposite view, that psychotic and neurotic forms of depression lie on the same continuum. 1994 Sci. Amer. May 26/3 As the function of the brain is undoubtedly linked to its structure and physiology, it follows that homosexuals' brains might exhibit some features typical of the opposite sex. < as lemmas |
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