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 are held to be somewhat effeminate.
  他们有一点儿女人气。
• 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。
• You mean he is effeminate?
  你是说他是娘娘腔？
• The system makes boys effeminate and girls masculine.
  这种体制使得男孩娘娘腔，使女孩变得男人腔。
• 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。
• At the end of the 19th century its narrative of obsession, murder and hedonism offended Victorian society, with critics dubbing The Picture of Dorian Grey everything from effeminate to unclean.
  十九世纪末，这部小说中对痴恋、谋杀及享乐主义的记叙与当时的社会格格不入，评论者对《道林格雷的画像》批评从女人气到不纯洁。
• There's nothing effeminate about it& you have to be incredibly fit to dance.
  其实芭蕾并不‘女人气’，反而需要健康的体魄才能跳好。
• 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。
• Wen tingyun's Ci poems are effeminate, redolent with the fragrance of women.
  温庭筠的词带有脂粉气。
• He is an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle.
  他是个性格柔弱，有着水汪汪的蓝眼睛，并且头发分成中界的乡村青年。