英语释义

1. a person's sexual identity or self-identification as bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, pansexual, etc. the state of being bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, pansexual, etc.
Last summer a proposal submitted to Family Dollar Stores … persuaded the company's board to adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
— William G. Sinkford Liberace went to extraordinary lengths to hide his sexual orientation from the public.
— Entertainment Weekly

2. a person's sexual preference or identity as bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual the state of being bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual

3. a person's sexual identity or self-identification as bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, etc. the state of being bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, etc.

片语

sexual ethics orientation性道德价值取向

Value orientation of sexual behaviors性行为的价值取向

sexual preference性取向；性偏好；性爱好

Sexual Orientation and Personality性取向与人格

sexual orientation disturbance性定向困扰

英汉例句

• Previous research has shown that the finger-length ratio is linked with fertility and breast cancer risk in women and even sexual orientation in men and women.

  此前的一些研究还显示，手指比例与妇女生殖能力和乳腺癌的发病率有关，甚至关系到男女的性取向。

• a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex.

  一个异性恋的人；一个对异性有性爱倾向性的人。

• Kirchofer duly kept mum about her sexual orientation at work.

  在公司里，科奇弗乖乖地对自己的性倾向保持缄默。

• To refrain from any conduct or statement which discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or other personal characteristic of attorneys, parties, or witnesses.

  避免任何歧视律师、当事人或者证人的种族、宗教、性别、性取向、或其他个人特征的行为或语言.

• sexual orientation

  性的取向

• Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.

  同性恋的关于或有对同性的性倾向的

• sexual orientation disturbance

  性定向困扰