effeminate

英 [ɪˈfemɪnət]

美 [ɪˈfemɪnət]

adj.  女人气的

GRETEM8

BNC.33376 / COCA.27156

牛津词典

adj.

• 女人气的
  looking, behaving or sounding like a woman or a girl

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （男子）娘娘腔的，女人气的
  If you describe a man or boy aseffeminate, you think he behaves, looks, or sounds like a woman or girl.
  1. ...a skinny, effeminate guy in lipstick and earrings...
     涂着口红、戴着耳环、一身女人气的瘦骨嶙峋的男人
  2. His voice was curiously high-pitched, reedy, almost effeminate.
     他的嗓音出奇地高，尖声尖气，有些娘娘腔。

英英释义

adj

• having unsuitable feminine qualities
  Synonym:emasculateepicenecissysissifiedsissyishsissy

双语例句

• They find European males slightly effeminate.
  他们发现欧洲的男子都带一点脂粉气。
• The word effeminate the way it is ordinarily used refers to this one sub-class of men. Right?
  娘娘腔这个词常常被用于，指这一类男子，是吗？
• Proponents of the new beard movement ( yes, it was called that) argued that the bondage of the beard to the dictatorship of an effeminate fashion had yielded a world of woman-faced men.
  新兴的络腮胡运动（是的，就叫这个名字）的倡导者们提出，对络腮胡的禁锢，是一种娘娘腔时尚的专制，导致这个世界到处是长着女人脸的男人。
• Effeminate: Having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men.
  女子气的：具有胜过男人的女人气质或特点的。
• Falls on us, to be call'd effeminate;
  落在了我们身上，那叫做-女人般的柔情；
• Isn't there a perception that men with a strong interest in fashion are a bit effeminate?
  不是有一种看法认为，在时尚与浓厚的兴趣男人有点娘娘腔？
• They are held to be somewhat effeminate.
  他们有一点儿女人气。
• The girlfriend voice is characterized by a higher pitch and a more effeminate tone with speech patterns scattered with pet names and childish words.
  这种变化主要体现为：声调提高、语调更显温柔，并且不是夹杂着各种爱称和幼稚的语言。
• But his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales ofstupid laughter.
  但是他的娘娘腔声音只是引来了一阵阵的愚蠢笑声。
• A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect, that Edgar Linton never had.
  一个苍白的、娇滴滴的、柔弱的男孩子，简直可以当我主人的小弟弟：两个人是这么相像：可是在他的相貌上有一种病态的乖僻，那是埃德加林惇从来没有的。