male的意思:adj. 男性的；雄性的n. 男子；雄性植物；雄性动物。female的意思：adj. 雌性的；女性特有的；女（性）的；雌性动物的；雌蕊的；阴的；凹的；内孔的n. 女子；雌性动物；雌性植物；雌株。
首先从单词释义上来看：
male和female，更加着重指性别——
male指男生，或者是雄性动物，并不一定是人类，同样的female也可以指女性或雌性动物。
而当指代人的时候，male可以指成年男人也可以指小男孩子，只要是男性都可以用male来统性，female可以指成年女性或小女孩。
而man和woman更着重指“男人”“女人”，多用于指成年男女。而woman又指妇女。
可以说，male包含了man和boy，而female包含了woman和girl。范围上是有一定差异的。
再从习惯的用法含义上来看：
如果在口语中用female，往往含有一占暧昧的意思，就好像我们不说“女人”而说“小妞”那种感觉，你懂的。
如果用woman来指女人，听起来就没那么生动。
而man，有时隐含有一层男子气概的意思
双语例句
1.And we all relished the freedom of shifting boundaries; the extreme polarity of male/female doesn't necessarily fit who we are and how we write.
我们都喜欢随心所欲的转换领域；把男性和女性分为两个极端并不能定义我们的身份和我们的写作方式。
2.Be you male, female, arty, practical or academic, she believes that technology enables teachers to fashion a learning plan for each individual.
做自己向要成为的男人，女人，艺术家，实干家或者是学者。她坚信科技能帮助老师们为每位学生制定学习计划，能更好的因材施教。
3.Anyone familiar with psychology has probably heard a statement like this: A significant percentage of male &female undergraduates displayed X when prompted by Y.
熟悉心理学的人也许都听过这么一句话：受到Y的刺激时，有相当比例的男性和女性大学生呈现出了X的反应。
原声例句
1.You tell me when it stops!" For years, almost all leading movie and television stars, male or female,were white.VOA : special.2009.05.04
2.Milton's been noting that some of the pagan deities that the fallen angels eventually became were male and some were female.
3.Moreover, this earthling that seems to include both male and female, is then said to be in the image of God.
而且，这地球生物中似乎既有男也有女，他们依照上帝的形象。
4.For a couple hundred years we've had names which have switched gender but they almost always switch from male to female.VOA : special.2009.07.06
5.Naming expert Cleveland Evans explains that many of these names were traditionally female or male at one time or another.VOA : special.2009.07.06
权威例句
1.But there are some arts of the male female divide that are not just society imposing arbitrary rules.
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2.Within the organization, we have observed a similar imbalance with male-female participants: Many of our events tend to draw far more male attendees than female (roughly 80% male and 20% female).
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3.The large differences observed in unconjugated BPA levels between injection and oral exposures were qualitatively and quantitatively similar to what we previously reported in male and non-pregnant female monkeys, adult male and female rats, and adult male and female mice.
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网络释义
1.男女
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2.男
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3.男性女性
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短语
1.male female rule
公母尺
2.Male-female Equality
男女平等
3.Gender Male Female
性别 | 男男女女
4.Male& Female Infertility
男性不育与女性不孕
5.male female ratio
雌雄比 | 男女比例
6.male-female
男女 | 直角弯头 | 雄化女性
7.Male-female differences
男女不同
8.male-female-style clothes
男式女式服装
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