- 1n/mɛn/男人們;男性
More than one adult male person.
「men」是 man(男人)的不規則複數。英文的複數一般加 -s 或 -es,但 man → men 是不規則形式,要特別記。Men 可以指一群成年男性,也可以泛指「人類」(和 women and men 一起用的時候)。
示範例句 · Example
Three men were waiting outside the office.
中文翻譯三個男人在辦公室外面等待。
意思相近
malesgentlemen
意思相反
core核心畫面
From the word’s history
From Old English menn 'people', plural of man.
源自古英文 menn,原是 man 的複數,意思是「人們」。
You can think of men simply as the plural of man — more than one grown male person standing together.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Menname
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A god once worshipped in the western interior parts of Anatolia, and associated with lunar symbolism.
Menname
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A surname.
Menname
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The twentieth letter of the Armenian alphabet.
mennoun/mɛn/
- 1
datedfantasy(The) people, humanity, man(kind).
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- 2
datedgovernmentmilitarypoliticsEnlisted personnel (as opposed to commissioned officers).
- "Muster up the men in the barracks at 0600," the lieutenant said to his sergeant.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- multiple endocrine neoplasia
- man
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。