male

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male1 /meɪl/ S3 W2 adjectiveadj → mail, email

1 MANtypical of or relating to men or boys 男性（特有）的 OPP female → masculine

a deep male voice

低沉的男声

traditional male values

传统的男性价值观

Motor-racing has largely been a male preserve (=something that only men have been involved with).

赛车基本上是男人的专利。

2 MANa male person or animal cannot have babies or lay eggs 男的；雄的，公的 OPP female

adult male bears

成年公熊

Many women earn less than their male colleagues.

许多女性挣钱比她们的男性同事少。

3. HBPa male plant or flower cannot produce fruit 〔植物或花〕雄性的，只具雄蕊的 OPP female

4. technicalDT a male plug has parts that stick out and that fit into a hole or socket 〔插头〕公的，阳的，凸形的 OPP female

Examples from the Corpus

male• Most of the science teachers are male.• a survey of male and female attitudes• Salaries have increased for both male and female graduates.• Here we are, you see, women of modest but independent means, living together, but without male attachments.• A rooster is a male chicken.• More women are entering traditionally male jobs like engineering.• The Health Service needs more male nurses.• the male-only setting of the St Andrews Sporting Club• All the selected texts are written by male philosophers.• One such male priest conducted a ritual of purification of a church after a woman priest had celebrated Mass there.• male pursuits such as football and golf• All too often, the male response has been flight.• male sexuality• Aboard they had some six hundred gallons of gasoline, just a partial load, and a male stand-in for her.• Is it the same reason old male television anchors go to the networks, and old female television anchors go to pasture?• Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence - as though women haven't been doing that for centuries.• How, then, do women engineers resolve the contradictions of their presence in a male world?

a male preserve• Because work is still considered a male role, leisure, similarly, is thought to be a male preserve.• Despite being so ubiquitous, until now they've been solely a male preserve.• In cotton country women weavers made coarser cloths, quality pieces remaining a male preserve.• Not only does she execute embroideries, but designs them too - thereby encroaching on what had formerly been a male preserve.• Working technical equipment seemed to be a male preserve.• The suburban commuter station was emphatically a male preserve at certain times of day.• Real life was then a male preserve but Helen had no interest in the usual option of the women's pages.• Holidays are chosen together by 51%, and interestingly, diy remains a male preserve for only 52%.

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