| 释义 |
female adjective—女 adj (almost always used)女性 adj (often used)Examples:female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority—distinctively female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa)—female suffering absence or atresia of vagina (as birth defect)—Dufour gland (produces female sex hormone in bees)—Mei Lanfang (1894-1961), famous master of Beijing opera, specialist in female roles—corpus luteum (glands in female mammals producing progesterone)—TESHIMA Aoi (1987-), Japanese female pop singer—(old) female servants or concubines in homes of the rich—Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)—aunt (Japanese loanword, respectful appellation for any older female)—Yu Dan (1965-), female scholar, writer, educator and TV presenter—oestrus (period of sexual receptivity of female mammals)—Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer—Qiu Jin (1875-1907), famous female martyr of the anti-Qing revolution, the subject of several books and films—Pratibha Patil, female Indian Congress party politician, president from 2007—Guo Jingjing (1981-), Chinese female diver and Olympic gold medalist—Emmy Noether (1882-1935), famous German female algebraist—parthenogenesis (biol. a female reproducing without fertilization)—(meaning uncertain); rhinoceros (possibly female) or bull—fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world—Ru Zhijuan (1925-1998), female novelist and politician—older female cousin (sharing paternal grandfather)—Dan, female roles in Chinese opera (played by specialized male actors)—Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979—younger female cousin (sharing paternal grandfather)—Li Qingzhao (1084-c. 1151), southern Song female poet—role of vivacious young female in Chinese opera— |