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

• I am tired of wondering if a potential employer finds me too effeminate or if I need to carry mace on-campus.
  我对于自己总是担心雇主会发现我过于女人气，或是总是想着在校园里走动时要不要带着喷雾催泪器护身这些想法感到疲惫。
• 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。
• He spoke in an effeminate voice.
  他讲起话来一副娘娘腔。
• 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。
• They find European males slightly effeminate.
  他们发现欧洲的男子都带一点脂粉气。
• The trait of being effeminate ( derogatory of a man).
  像柔弱的女人一样的特征（用于对男子的贬损）。
• 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。
• Playing the adult Cheng, HK actor Leslie Cheung conveys in a glance the intensity of his feelings for his "king" through his finely sculpted, effeminate features.
  饰演成年蝶衣的香港演员张国荣以他细腻的刻划和描绘表现了他对“霸王”的强烈情感。
• 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。
• 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。