neuter

[ˈnju:tə(r)] [ˈnutə(r)]
例句
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • VERB
    阉割;给(动物)绝育
    When an animal is neutered, its reproductive organs are removed so that it cannot create babies.
    例句
    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
    To neuter an organization, group, or person means to make them powerless and ineffective.
    例句
    ...the Government's 'hidden agenda' to neuter local authorities... 削夺地方政府权力的政府“秘密议程” 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。
  • ADJ
    (某些语言中名词、代词、形容词等)中性的
    In some languages, a neuter noun, pronoun, or adjective has a different form from a masculine or feminine one, or behaves in a different way.
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
  • Verb
    1. remove the ovaries of;
    "Is your cat spayed?"
  • Adjective
    1. of grammatical gender;
    "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
    2. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs