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female + noun
She is a female doctor.
她是一名女医生。
女性的；雌性的；母的
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女性的；雌性的；母的
Of the sex that produces eggs (ova); relating to the sex that gives birth or lays eggs.
She is a female doctor.
她是一名女医生。
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare feminine, womanly.)
Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
(植物或动物)雌性,产生可受精的配子(卵子)以繁衍后代。
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
The female lion is resting under the tree.
那只雌狮正在树下休息。
AI contextual example
She is the only female engineer in the team.
她是团队里唯一的女工程师。
AI contextual example
This plant has both male and female flowers.
这种植物有雄花和雌花。
AI contextual example
a female heir
一个女性继承人。
WordNet
She is a female doctor.
她是一名女医生。
用于说明性别。
The puppy is female.
这只小狗是雌性的。
Not this
He is very female.
Use this
He is very feminine.
“female”指生物学性别，而“feminine”指女性特质。描述性格时应用“feminine”。
Not this
She is a female actress.
Use this
She is an actress.
“actress”已指女性演员，加“female”造成语义重复，应去掉。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
母狗；雌犬
The female dog stayed with her puppies all night.
那只母狗整晚都和她的幼崽待在一起。
雌株；雌性植物
A female plant needs pollen from a male plant to produce seeds.
雌株需要雄株的花粉才能结出种子。
女学生
Every female student in the class passed the exam.
班上的每位女学生都通过了考试。
女性人口
The female population in this city outnumbers the male population.
这座城市的女性人口多于男性人口。
女声；女性的声音
A gentle female voice answered the phone.
一个温柔的女声接了电话。
女性角色
The movie features a strong female character.
这部电影以一个坚强的女性角色为主角。
女性的直觉
She had a feeling something was wrong—call it female intuition.
她觉得有点不对劲——就说是女人的直觉吧。
女性视角；女性凝视
The film reworks the love story through the female gaze.
这部电影从女性视角重新讲述了这段爱情故事。
女人；女性（幽默、旧式说法）
He always said he could never understand the female persuasion.
他总说自己永远弄不懂女人这种生物。
我们把所有恐龙都做成了雌性。
In Jurassic Park, geneticist Henry Wu reveals that the cloned dinosaurs are all female to control breeding, a measure that famously fails when they find a way to reproduce.
在电影《侏罗纪公园》中，遗传学家亨利·吴透露，为控制繁殖，所有克隆恐龙都是雌性，但恐龙最终找到了繁殖方法，使这一措施彻底失败。
Use female naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
记得 female = fe + male：male 是男的，前面多个 fe，像女生多戴了朵小花，所以是女性的、雌性的。
语域：neutral 常见场景：scientific writing、everyday conversation、official forms 作为形容词，female 表示“女性的/雌性的”时通常为中性词，多用于科学描述、日常交流和正式表格中。在指人时，某些语境下更常用 woman 或 womanly，以避免过于生物学或技术化的色彩，具体需结合实际语境选择。
The final syllable of female is pronounced /meɪl/, exactly like male, mail, pale, tale, fail, and whale. However, female has primary stress on the first syllable, so it is not a perfect rhymer with these words if rhyme is defined by stress. Watch out for words spelled with final -mal like animal, formal, and signal, where -al is pronounced /əl/ or /l̩/, not /eɪl/.
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