a male worker who is in charge of a group of other factory or building workers 領班： 負責其他工廠或建築工人的男性工人He got a job as foreman of a building site. 他得到了一份工作，在建築工地當工頭。
a man who acts as the leader of a jury in court 陪審團團長
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps suggested by Dutch voorman (compare with German Vormann).
More About gender表示男女的說法 人類 職業 代詞
- When you are writing or speaking English it is important to use language that includes both men and women equally. Some people may be very offended if you do not.
說寫英語時，重要的是用詞要把男女都包括在内，否則可能會冒犯某些人。
- Man and mankind have traditionally been used to mean ‘all men and women’. Many people now prefer to use humanity, the human race, human beings or people.
man 和 mankind 傳統上用以指所有男性和女性，不過，現在許多人喜歡用 humanity、the human race、human beings 或 people。
- The suffix -ess in names of occupations such as actress, hostess and waitress shows that the person doing the job is a woman. Many people now avoid these. Instead you can use actor or host (although actress and hostess are still very common), or a neutral word, such as server for waiter and waitress.
- Neutral words like assistant, worker, person or officer are now often used instead of -man or -woman in the names of jobs. For example, you can use police officer instead of policeman or policewoman, and spokesperson instead of spokesman or spokeswoman. Neutral words are very common in newspapers, on television and radio and in official writing, in both British English and North American English.
- When talking about jobs that are traditionally done by the other sex, some people say: a male secretary/nurse/model (NOT man) or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:
My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor. 我的女兒喜歡讓女醫生看病。 他們有個男保姆照料孩子。 女賽車手
- He used to be considered to cover both men and women:
he 過去被認爲既指男性也指女性： Everyone needs to feel he is loved. 人人都需要有被愛的感覺。 人人都知道自己需要什麽嗎？ 有人把外衣落在這兒了。 希望沒人忘了随身帶上護照。 - Some people prefer to use he or she, his or her, or him or her in speech and writing:
有人在口語和書面語中喜歡用 he or she、his or her 或 him or her： Everyone knows what’s best for him- or herself. 人人都知道對自己來說什麽是最好的。 如有疑問請向你的醫生咨詢，他／她會給你更多的信息。 嬰兒累了就會哭 嬰兒疲倦時會哭。