名詞 genre:

1. a kind of literary or artistic work
2. a style of expressing yourself in writing
   同義詞：writing style, literary genre
3. an expressive style of music
   同義詞：music genre, musical genre, musical style
4. a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique

1. Spanish painter of genre scenes, portraits, and religious subjects, such as Immaculate Conception(1668).
   牟利羅，巴托洛米奧·埃斯特巴1617－1682西班牙風(fēng)俗、肖像和宗教題材的畫家，比如圣靈懷胎1668
2. The literary genre represented by novels.
   以小說表出現(xiàn)的文學(xué)類型

gen.re

n.（名詞）
A type or class:
類型，種類：
例句：
.Emaciated famine victims . . . on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent.(Helen Kitchen)
.很憔悴的饑荒受害者…在電視上引起了對這個大陸的一種新型的注意.(海倫·基欽)

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content:
體裁，樣式：以鮮明的風(fēng)格、形式或內(nèi)容為標(biāo)志的藝術(shù)作品的一個流派，如在音樂或文學(xué)中：
例句：
.his six String Quartets . . . the most important works in the genre since Beethoven`s.(Time)
.他的六部弦樂四重奏…是該流派自貝多芬以來最重要的作品.(時代)

A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life.
風(fēng)俗畫：一種從日常生活中描繪場景的現(xiàn)實主義風(fēng)格的畫

來源：
French
法語
from Old French [kind]
源自 古法語 [種類]
from Latin genus gener- * see gen…-
源自 拉丁語 genus gener- *參見 gen…-