lesbian

英式音标：[ˈlezbiən]

美式音标：

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概况：

adj. [心理] 女同性恋的

n. 女同性恋者

词义：

adj.

女同性恋的；莱斯博斯岛的；

n.

女同性恋者；莱斯博斯岛人；

变形

复数：lesbians

英英释义

lesbian[ 'lezbiən ]

n.

a female homosexual

同义词：tribadegay woman

a resident of Lesbos

adj.of female homosexuality

同义词：sapphic

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

And Batwoman is making a comeback as a lesbian.
蝙蝠女侠将以女同性恋的身份卷土重来。

She had a lesbian love affair with her secretary.
她和她的秘书有女同性恋的恋情。

用作名词(n.)

Basically, heterosexual men and lesbian women preferred the female pheromones oer the male, while homosexual men preferred male pheromones.
一般来说，异性恋的男性和同性恋的女性更易于闻到雌性而不是雄性信息激素，而男性同性恋者们则恰恰相反。

权威例句

6. Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents

Compulsory Heterosexuality, Lesbian Existence

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

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Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence.

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The 2011 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools.

Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in white and Latino lesbian, gay, and bisexual young adults.

The 2003 National School Climate Survey. The School-Related Experiences of Our Nation's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.

英语词源：

lesbian

lesbian: [16] Originally, and for many centuries, Lesbian simply meant ‘of Lesbos’, referring to the Aegean island of that name, off the Turkish coast. Then, in the second half of the 19th century, probably some time before 1870, it embarked on a more sensational career. The lyric poet Sappho (c. 600 BC) lived on Lesbos, and she was noted for the love poems she wrote to other women. Her name was invoked directly (in Sapphism) around this time as a genteel literary allusion to female homosexuality, but it was the even more deeply euphemistic lesbian that went on to become the main English term in this area.

lesbian (adj.)

1590s, "pertaining to the island of Lesbos," from Latin Lesbius, from Greek lesbios "of Lesbos," Greek island in northeastern Aegean Sea (the name originally may have meant "wooded"), home of Sappho, great lyric poet whose erotic and romantic verse embraced women as well as men, hence meaning "relating to homosexual relations between women" (1890; lesbianism in this sense is attested from 1870) and the noun, first recorded 1925. Her particular association in English with erotic love between women dates to at least 1825, though the words formed from it are later. Before this, the principal figurative use (common in 17c.) was lesbian rule (c. 1600) a mason's rule of lead, of a type used on Lesbos, which could be bent to fit the curves of a molding; hence, "pliant morality or judgment."

And this is the nature of the equitable, a correction of law where it is defective owing to its universality. ... For when the thing is indefinite the rule also is indefinite, like the leaden rule used in making the Lesbian moulding; the rule adapts itself to the shape of the stone and is not rigid, and so too the decree is adapted to the facts. [Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"]

See also tribadism. Greek had a verb lesbiazein "to imitate the Lesbians," which implied "sexual initiative and shamelessness" among women, but not necessarily female homosexuality.

造句：

1. a lesbian who is noticeably masculine.

一个呈现出显著的男子汉气概的女同性恋者。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. A homosexual person;a gay man or a lesbian.

同性恋者男同性恋者或女同性恋者

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

3. One very large category of such users of cloning might be lesbian couples.

使用克隆人技术的一个很大的人群是女同性恋夫妇。

-- 来源 -- science - 汉英

4. Lesbian love

(女性间的)同性爱

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. Of, relating to, or being a lesbian.

同性恋女子的同性恋女子的、与同性恋女子有关的或作为同性恋女子的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.

用于对女性同性恋者的贬称

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. Lesbian novels

色情小说

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

8. a lesbian relationship

女性同性恋关系.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

9. Some wonder if they might be gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

一些会感到迷惑自己也许会成为同性恋或是双性恋。

-- 来源 -- www.g1g0.cn

10. pejorative synonym for lesbian.

对女同性恋者的同义轻蔑语。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考