英:[ʌnˈmænli]
美:[ʌnˈmænli]
英:[ʌnˈmænli]
美:[ʌnˈmænli]
un·man·ly
uhn maen li
比较级:unmanlier或more unmanly
最高级:unmanliest或most unmanly
unmanliness (n.)
词根:unman
adj.unmanned 无人的;无人操纵的;被阉割的
n.unmanliness 怯懦;无男子气概
v.unmanned 使失去男子气质(unman的过去式和过去分词形式)
vt.unman 使失去男子气质;使怯懦;阉割
15世纪晚期,“贬低人类的”,来自 un-(1)“不”+ manly(形容词)。中古荷兰语 onmamlijc,德语 unmännlich 也有类似的构词方式。意思是“没有男人的品质或特征”(与女人或孩子相对)。这个意思最早见于1540年代。古英语中有 unmennisclic “非人类的”(形容词); unmann(名词)“怪物; 邪恶的人”。
The first known use of unmanly was in 1534
unmaskverb
to strip of a mask or a disguise : expose
unmask a traitor
unmaskverb
to strip of a mask or a disguise : expose
unmask a traitor
unmarriedadjective
not married:
not now or previously married
being divorced or widowed
unmannerlyadjective
impolite
unmannedadjective
having no crew aboard
an unmanned spacecraft
unmanlyadjective
not manly: as
being of weak character : cowardly
effeminate
1 Yet now, here we are creating our own field in which to feel deficient and unmanly – one which is completely invisible.
2 “A lot of them just experienced what was required in school as being unmanly,” he said, most noticeably among young men whose parents were low-income or had not been to college.
3 With that smile, whatever he meant by it, a smile that he doubtless wouldn’t remember, he impressed upon me, in the rigidity of my embarrassment, that it is unmanly to burden others with one’s grief.”
4 Voicing fear, rage or even grief can be seen as unmanly.
5 All of this comes as he's also implying it's somehow weak, unmanly and un-American to wear one.
6 And it seemed to me that there was something unmanly about my attachment to literature.
7 Mr. Donen said producers feared that the dancers would seem unmanly to a mass audience.
8 To dilute hard liquor..was..unmanly.
9 He also set out to overturn the idea of Richard II presented in the work of Shakespeare “who paints him more like sort of a weak … unmanly character”.
10 We'll never accuse you of having done anything forgetful or unmanly.
我们决不会讲你不够朋友或没有男子汉气概的。
11 Mary McDowell, a leading settlement house social worker, observed that the defeated strikers seemed “unmanly and without self-respect.”
12 By the lights of their own conception of masculinity, they are unmanly.
13 It was once thought unmanly not to drink and smoke.
身为男子不抽烟不喝酒曾视为无男子气概。
14 It might be unmanly, but he couldn’t help it, and I am glad of it.
15 Rather predictably, he sees the removals as “destroying our heritage” and has called Mr. Landrieu “a traitorous cuck,” deploying a slur used by white nationalists and the alt-right to insult politicians as weak and unmanly.
16 Billy Briggs’s “The Sissy Song,” released in 1951, proposed killing oneself as the adequate response to such unmanly habits as wearing the “pretty suede shoes that a lot of those sissies buy” and eating salad.
17 Eager to cut the tension following what they perceived to be a slightly unmanly excursion -- two guys looking at art together -- they headed directly to a bar.
两个男人一起去看艺术展,这种行为让他们觉得有点不太爷们儿,因此急切地希望缓解那种紧张状态,于是他们又去了一家酒吧。
18 Dolan, in colorful language, attacked the notion that players who put their health and family first were “weak or unmanly.”
19 I must have been complaining of loneliness or poverty or some other unmanly lack that made him say, pitilessly, “Light writes white.”
20 He felt unmanly because he wasn't interested in sports.
2 懦弱的
milk-livered pigeonhearted nidering henhearted nicey-nice soft weak meek pimp fainthearted faintheart poor-spirited infirm poor spirited
3 无决断的
4 胆怯
pigeon-hearted yellow nervous scary timid gutless diffident timorous yellow-bellied lily-livered blate poor-spirited cowardly faintly shyly timidly timorously backwardly shyness timidity eeriness pusillanimity timidness unmanliness poltroonery recreancy timid as a hare meticulous coward fearsome dastardly gingerly skittish pusillanimous shily diffidence funk quail daunt lose nerve
7 娇气
8 懦弱
milk-livered pigeonhearted nidering henhearted nicey-nice soft weak meek pimp fainthearted faintheart poor-spirited weakly infirm yellow weakness cowardice infirmity cowardliness poor spirited
9 娇气的
10 娘娘腔
soft feminine mushy sissy ladylike girlish effete womanish namby-pamby sissified pantywaist nance fluffing out
12 无丈夫气
13 不像男子汉的
14 没有男子气概
15 柔弱
weak feminine milky ladylike effeminate girlish effete dickey limp-wristed namby-pamby epicene pantywaist weakness delicacy effeminacy muliebrity evirate soften womanise tender delicate infirm washy emasculate womanish limpsy tenderly femininity infirmity emasculation womanize soft slim childish weakly flaccid piano extenuate unmanned
17 胆怯的
pigeon-hearted yellow nervous scary timid gutless diffident timorous yellow-bellied lily-livered blate poor-spirited timid as a hare meticulous coward fearsome dastardly gingerly skittish pusillanimous shily
18 柔弱的
weak feminine milky ladylike effeminate girlish effete dickey limp-wristed namby-pamby epicene pantywaist tender delicate infirm washy emasculate womanish limpsy soft slim childish weakly flaccid unmanned
19 怯懦的
harehearted henhearted faint craven dastardly tremulous pusillanimous recreant caitiff chicken-livered chicken coward cowardly faint-hearted gutless chickenshit chicken-hearted pigeon-hearted funky