词组 | several |
释义 | 比较下面两句: I bought several books this morning. (我在今天早上买了好几本书[不止一两本]。) I bought some books this morning. (我在今天早上买了几本书[不多]。) sex(ual) 1.the sex 统指“女子们”,是戏谑词语,the sexes 指“男子们和女子们”。例如:He never associated with the sex. 和 He often talked about the equality between the sexes. 2.a person of the opposite sex 里有 the,two persons of (the) opposite sexes 里可以有 the,可以没有 the,two persons of opposite sex 里没有 the。 3.sex(形容词)和 sexual 没有绝对的区别。除了在 sex appeal(性感),sex antagonism(两性间的对立),sex war(两性间的冲突),sex urge(性欲)等少数名词里必须用 sex 以外,sex 不及 sexual 普通。 下面各词前面用 sex 或 sexual 都普通: act, attraction, cell, hygiene, instinct, life, organs, pervert 下面各词前面通常用 sexual: affinity, appetite, behaviour, commerce, copulation, desire, difference, emotion, feeling, function, impotence, impulse, indulgence, intercourse, interest, morality, perversion, process, relations, reproduction, selection |
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