Mr. Green's epicene style of writing appeals to nobody. 没有人对格林先生软弱的文体发生兴趣。
epicene
[ noun ]
one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
<noun.person> [ adj ]
having an ambiguous sexual identity
<adj.all>
having unsuitable feminine qualities
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Epicene \Ep"i*cene\, a. & n. [L. epicoenus, Gr. ?; fr. 'epi` + ? common; cf. F. ['e]pic[`e]ne.] 1. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
2. Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs epicene. --Prof. Wilson.
He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. --J. A. Symonds.
Only David Margulies as the epicene Foppy manages to be outrageous and affecting at the same time.
At the centre of this drama was an epicene upper middle-class youth who had a truly fin de siecle obsession with a classy blonde model.