英:[ˈmæskjəlɪnaɪz]
美:[ˈmæskjələˌnaɪz]
英:[ˈmæskjəlɪnaɪz]
美:[ˈmæskjələˌnaɪz]
mas·cu·lin·ize
maes ky lih naIz
第三人称单数:masculinizes
现在分词:masculinizing
过去式:masculinized
过去分词:masculinized
masculinization (n.)
Verb
1. give a masculine appearance or character to;
"Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"
2. produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy;
"the drugs masculinized the teenage girl"
男性化:女性出现男性特征,或青春期男性的正常性征发育
The first known use of masculinize was in 1858
masculinizetransitive verb
to give a preponderantly masculine character toespecially: to cause (a female) to take on male characteristics
1 Late 19th-century P.E. programs, for instance, excluded girls for fear more muscles and competitive urges would masculinize them.
2 This was to be the moment of arrival for women’s soccer in France, which had been banned as too masculinizing during World War II and not given approval again by the French soccer federation until 1970.
3 So the female brain plan can be thought of as the default—it is what you get unless testosterone masculinizes the brain.
4 Some steroids are thought to be less masculinizing than others, but much of the information is anecdotal, passed along in bodybuilding circles.
5 I was ready to transition not just into a masculinized body but a masculine way of being.
6 The fast answer is that a surge of testosterone masculinizes the fetal brain by altering the number of neurons in very specific areas that mainly concern reproductive behavior, such as mounting and penetrating.
7 Specifically, they argued that inherited marks that influence a fetus's sensitivity to testosterone in the womb might “masculinize” the brains of girls and “feminize” those of boys, leading to same-sex attraction.
8 If they decide to move forward with a medical gender transition, they may take some combination of hormones—estrogen for feminizing effects or testosterone for masculinizing effects—to experience puberty that aligns with their gender.
9 While we don’t worry about an involved father “masculinizing” his daughter, there is clearly concern about the feminizing influence of mom.
10 “There is a strong correlation between masculinized sex ratios and higher rates of violent crime against women,” said Valerie M. Hudson, a co-author of “Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population.”
11 And some of that is then changed into estradiol, which goes on to masculinize the brain.
12 A lot of female artists back then were either masculinized, like they had to hang with the boys and do more coke than them, or they were feminized and fit the hot girl bass-player tokenism.
13 We never worry about an involved father "masculinizing" his daughter; why do such fears persist about a feminizing aspect of mothering?
14 According to Hurlburt, “in some ways, White House chief of staff is the most masculinized job in the federal government.”
15 If a lion mother had abnormally high androgens during pregnancy, her female offspring may end up “masculinized”—a situation that occurs occasionally in people but which is rarely observed in wild animals.
16 Puzzling as it may seem, moreover, low levels of estrogen feminize the brain, whereas high levels masculinize it.
17 A combination of behavioral, morphological, and ecological research has helped us begin to understand why these highly aggressive and masculinized females have been favored evolutionarily.
18 Gender reassignment surgery isn’t required to change gender in Italy, but Matteo says he wants to have surgery to masculinize his chest.
19 Many of them were mildly intoxicated, but none were actually drunk; the whole sounded the note of celebration in the ballroom strengthened and masculinized.
20 Reynolds had started taking testosterone earlier that year, and after years of tamping down their chest with a binder, had scheduled a consultation for top surgery (to remove breast tissue to masculinize the chest).