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A fanboy is a boy or young man who loves one computer game, comic, film, phone brand, or TV show so much that he talks about it constantly, defends it, and knows tiny details.
A fanboy is指的是 a boy or young man一個男孩或年輕男子,who loves他熱愛 one computer game, comic, film, phone brand, or TV show某個電玩、漫畫、電影、手機品牌或電視節目,so much that熱愛到 he talks about it constantly常常把它掛在嘴邊、defends it幫它辯護、and knows tiny details還知道各種小細節的程度。
Other people often use the word about him, not always kindly — it can mean he will not hear a word against “his” thing. There is a matching word, .
Other people別人 often use the word about him常常這樣稱呼他,not always kindly不見得是善意的——it can mean這可能表示 he will not hear他聽不進 a word against “his” thing任何說「他的」東西不好的話。There is還有 a matching word一個對應的詞,fangirl女粉。
These days people of any age, and sometimes any gender, get called a fanboy if they behave this way about a product, especially phones and games.
These days現在 people of any age不分年齡,and sometimes any gender有時甚至不分性別,if they behave this way about a product只要對某個產品這樣入迷,especially phones and games尤其是手機和遊戲,get called a fanboy都可能被稱為fanboy。
It can also be a verb: to fanboy over a new film is to gush about it. This is informal internet and hobby talk. You would not put it in a school essay unless you were writing about that culture.
It can also be a verb這個字也可以當動詞:to fanboy over a new film這個說法,is指的是 to gush about it對一部新電影大肆吹捧、興奮過頭。This is這是 informal internet and hobby talk網路和興趣圈的非正式用語。Unless you were writing about that culture除非你正在寫的就是那種文化,you would not你不會 in a school essay在學校作文裡 put it用它。
Though actually, the teasing bite is part of the meaning: a fan just likes something; a fanboy, in this sense, likes it too loudly.
Though actually不過其實,the teasing bite帶點調侃的意味 is part of the meaning也是這個字意思的一部分:a fan只是單純喜歡某樣東西;a fanboy而這裡說的fanboy,in this sense在這個意思上,likes it too loudly是喜歡得太張揚、太吵。
原始詞典資料2 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。
fanboynoun/ˈfænˌbɔɪ/
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derogatoryslanglifestyleA male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
- (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
- Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
fanboyverb/ˈfænˌbɔɪ/
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slanglifestyleTo worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
- James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.
- 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, [Acknowledgements], To Yusef Komunyakaa, thank you for […] tolerating my fanboying when, by luck, I sat down beside you one rainy night in a West Village theater […] and kept yapping about everything and nothing at all.
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。