neuter
a. 中性的, 不及物的, 生殖器不完全的 n. 中性词, 无性动物, 阉割动物
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释义与例句
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1.
An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
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One who has been neutered; eunuch.
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The act of neutering (typically an animal)
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A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
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A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
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The neuter gender.
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An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
语言学Make one do, or act (to), fare fare, fare agire, with an accusative when the verb is a neuter, and with a dative when otherwise.
Compound verbs other than those already spoken of whereby neuters are made active, are very rare, as I have already hinted under the head of nouns.
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To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
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To rid of sexuality.
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To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
及物Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.
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To make grammatically neuter.
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Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
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Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
中性的
语言学a neuter noun
the neuter definite article
a neuter termination
the neuter gender
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Intransitive.
语言学a neuter verb
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Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
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Sexless, nonsexual.
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Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
词汇关系
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同义词 3
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下位词 2
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词源
Inherited from Middle English neutre, from Latin neuter, from ne (“not”) + uter (“whether”), a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros); compare English whether and neither.
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