- 1娃娃臉的
A baby-faced adult has a face that still looks like a child’s: round cheeks, a soft chin, little or no beard shadow, a young look even when the person is grown. It is about the face, not about how the person thinks or acts. You hear it most about men, often with a mix of fondness and teasing — he looks too young for his job, or too young for how hard he plays. Sports writing likes baby-faced for a player who looks gentle and then scores, or tackles, without mercy. It can be kind; it can also sound a little as if you are not taking the person seriously. Neutral to informal. Written with a when it comes before a noun (a baby-faced actor). Though actually, faces change with sleep, weight, and a razor: someone can look baby-faced one year and not the next.
這個字指一個大人的臉還像小孩:臉頰圓、下巴柔和,幾乎沒有鬍渣。它只描述臉的樣子,不是在說一個人的想法或行為。最常用在男性身上,語氣常帶著喜愛,也帶點調侃,例如「he looks too young for his job」。運動報導也常用來形容一個看起來溫和的球員,上場卻毫不留情。
這個字可以是善意的,也可能聽起來像是不太把對方當一回事,要看語氣。放在名詞前面時要加連字號,例如「a baby-faced actor」。另外,臉會隨著睡眠、體重和刮鬍子而改變,同一個人今年看起來可能是娃娃臉,明年就不是了。
組成baby + faced (having that kind of face). A describing compound, usually written with a hyphen.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
baby-facedadj/ˈbeɪbiˌfeɪst/
- 1
Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.
- Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.
- [David] Caruso’s at his best in control of things as an island of calm fury. Here, looking like a babier-faced Alan Ladd, he’s hardly in charge even of his own destiny as an ex-petty thief who, forced by a cousin to do one more run, is caught, jailed, loses his wife in a car crash, and suffers the final indignity of having to turn police informer to secure permanent freedom.
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