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A clean-shaven man has no beard and no . He shaves, so the skin of the face shows. It is the usual opposite of . You hear it when looks matter — a job, a uniform, the stage — and in older writing it can sound like praise: tidy, proper. Though actually, it only means the hair is gone. It says nothing about whether the rest of him is tidy. Women are almost never described this way, even when they shave; the word belongs to men’s faces. “Clean” here does not mean “washed.” It means “clear of hair.”
刮乾淨鬍子的、沒留鬍鬚的
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
clean-shavenadj
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Having had hair (especially facial hair) shaved off, so that it is no longer visible.
- a clean-shaven man; a clean-shaven face; a clean-shaven leg
- A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。