Effeminate是一個英語單詞,主要用作形容詞,描述男性具有女性化特質(如柔弱、女人氣),通常帶有貶義。該詞在不同語境中可指外表、行為或性格特徵,並衍生出副詞(effeminately)和名詞(effeminateness)形式。其同義詞包括emasculate、epicene等。作為多義詞,它亦可作名詞或動詞使用,但形容詞用法最為常見。跨語言翻譯中,該詞在義大利語中譯為“effeminato”,西班牙語和葡萄牙語中譯為“afeminado”。
基本介紹
- 詞性:形容詞
- 發音:/ɪˈfemɪnət/(英)
- 詞形:effeminately(副)
- 同義詞:emasculate
- 反義詞:masculine
- 翻譯:effeminato(意)
詞性及用法
語言特徵
跨文化套用
例句分析
- Actor Lee Joon-ki became the nation's heartthrob when he played an effeminate court jester in the country's most viewed film of all time, "The King and the Clown". 當演員李準基在韓國最多人次觀看的電影<王的男人>中﹐飾演一個擁有女人氣質的宮廷弄臣時,他成為了全國的心跳。
- In places like America and Britain, where knowing how to analyse health-care plans is more important than fighting off infection, effeminate men are just as competitive. 而在像美國和英國這樣的國家裡,懂得如何分析醫療保健方案遠比抵抗傳染病的侵襲重要的多,在這樣的環境中,陰柔之美的男性也很討女性歡心。
- Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle. 那老闆是個帶女人氣的鄉下小伙子,水汪汪的藍眼睛,頭髮從正中分開。
- The effeminate young artist, whose real name was Gian Giacomo Caprotti, is thought to have served as a muse for other Da Vinci masterpieces, like "St. John the Baptist" and the "Angel Incarnate". 這位文弱的藝術家真名叫吉安。賈柯莫。卡普羅蒂,據認為他也是達文西創作其他作品的靈感之源,例如《浸禮教徒聖約翰》和《印地魅加天使》

