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

• You mean he is effeminate?
  你是说他是娘娘腔？
• They are held to be somewhat effeminate.
  他们有一点儿女人气。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Used as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is considered effeminate. In this position, the woman lies on her back with her legs spread apart, and the man gets on top of her.
  女性化的男子对被认为有女子气的男子或男孩的贬称在这种姿势中，女性背卧着，双脚分开，男性则趴在女性上面。
• They thought me mannered and rather effeminate.
  他们认为我矫揉造作并且有点女人腔。
• 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。
• He spoke in an effeminate voice.
  他讲起话来一副娘娘腔。