gender

柯林斯词典

1. N-VAR A person's gender is the fact that they are male or female. 性别
Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender. 女性有时仅仅因为她们的性别而被剥夺机会。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender. 性
While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender. 她的观察对某些男人可能是对的，但并不适用于所有男性。
3. N-VAR In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word's gender can affect its form and behaviour. In English, only personal pronouns such as "she," reflexive pronouns such as "itself," and possessive determiners such as "his" have gender. (语法上的) 性
In both Welsh and Irish the word for "moon" is of feminine gender. 在威尔士语和爱尔兰语中，“月亮”这个单词都是阴性。

She felt that her destiny had been shaped by her gender.
The sample of people questioned was drawn from the university's student register and stratified by age and gender.
Male actors were used to play characters of both genders.
Forensic scientists can tell the gender of the victim from the skeleton .
There is an even gender ratio within the company .