neuter

英 [ˈnjuːtə(r)]

美 [ˈnuːtər]

adj.  中性的
v.  阉割(动物); 使失去作用

过去分词：neutered　过去式：neutered　现在分词：neutering　复数：neuters　第三人称单数：neuters　

BNC.35574 / COCA.25438

牛津词典

adj.

• 中性的
  belonging to a class of nouns, pronouns, adjectives or verbs whose gender is not feminine or masculine
  1. The Polish word for ‘window’ is neuter.
     波兰语里“窗户”一词是中性的。

verb

• 阉割（动物）
  to remove part of the sex organs of an animal so that it cannot produce young
  1. Has your cat been neutered?
     你家的猫阉过了吗？
• 使失去作用
  to prevent sth from having the effect that it ought to have

柯林斯词典

• VERB 阉割;给(动物)绝育
  When an animalis neutered, its reproductive organs are removed so that it cannot create babies.
  1. We ask the public to have their dogs neutered and keep them under close supervision.
     我们要求公众为自家的狗做绝育手术，并严格看管。
• VERB 使无效;使无权
  Toneuteran organization, group, or person means to make them powerless and ineffective.
  1. ...the Government's 'hidden agenda' to neuter local authorities...
     削夺地方政府权力的政府“秘密议程”
  2. Their air force had been neutered before the work began.
     任务开始之前他们的空军就已经丧失了威力。
• (某些语言中名词、代词、形容词等)中性的
  In some languages, aneuternoun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a masculine or feminine one, or behaves in a different way.

英英释义

noun

• a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

verb

• remove the ovaries of
  1. Is your cat spayed?
  Synonym:alterspaycastrate

adj

• of grammatical gender
  1. `it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun
• having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
  Synonym:sexless

双语例句

• Today, somebody called me a neuter.
  今天，有人就开始叫我是无性动物。
• Neuter and tonal ash, white, black can with any tonal collocation.
  中性色调的灰、白、黑可以与任何色调搭配。
• Gender theory explains, neuter is a kind of "sex", and it ignores the objective existence of gender differences.
  性别理论上解释说，中性化是一种“无性化”，它忽略了客观存在的男女性别差异。
• Whenever the singular or plural number, or the masculine, feminine or neuter gender is used in these articles, it shall equally, where the context admits, include the others.
  无论本《公司章程》中使用的词是单数、复数，阴性、阳性还是中性，根据上下文，彼此都应该互相包含。
• Of the green of tundra, glacier ashen the neuter color with ice and snow and brunet form bright contrast, build those who give a kind of lasting and wide extensive is calm.
  苔原的绿色、冰川的灰白和冰雪的中性色与深色形成鲜明对比，营造出一种永恒而宽泛的沉静。
• 'it'is the third-person singular neuter pronoun.
  'it'是单数第三人称的中性代名词。
• I shall be impartial, though I can not be neuter.
  虽然我不能保持中立，我也不偏袒任何一方。
• The masculine shall include the feminine and neuter and references to persons shall include corporations and all legal entities capable of having a legal existence.
  男性字词已包括女性字词和中性字词，提及的人应包括公司和所有合法存在的具有法律能力的实体。
• Additional, neuter colorific is used inside the study, mediate a concise and friendly atmosphere.
  另外，书房内中性色彩的使用，调和出简洁而亲切的气氛。
• English nouns can be divided into four categories: masculine, feminine, common and neuter.
  英语名词中四种不同类别的性：阳性、阴性、通性和中性。