- 1色瞇瞇地盯著看、猥褻地斜眼看；當名詞是那種色瞇瞇的眼神。中文說「用色瞇瞇的眼神盯著人看」「賊笑」大致就是這個意思——重點是看很久、還被看的人知道你在看。
To leer is to look at someone in a way that makes them feel like an object — a long, open, sexual stare, usually with a small unpleasant smile. Every part of that matters. It is not a quick glance; it lasts. It is not hidden; the person wants to be seen looking, and that is part of what makes it horrible. And the face is doing something too — the mouth is usually curled, the head slightly tilted, so the look says 'I am enjoying this and I do not care that you noticed.' The pattern is leer at someone: 'He leered at her across the bar.' The word carries the judgement of whoever is telling you; a person leering never thinks of it as leering. It is the standard verb for describing harassment in novels, journalism and film reviews, and it is stronger and more specific than stare — a stranger might stare at you because you look lost, but nobody leers innocently. The same word is a noun for the look itself: 'he gave her a leer', 'a drunken leer spread across his face'. As a noun it does not have to be sexual, though it usually is; a leer can also be a nasty smile, the look of someone enjoying your bad luck. There is also an older sense, now rare, where to leer just meant to look sideways or out of the corner of the eye — the word seems to come from an old noun leer meaning 'cheek' or 'face in profile', which is the sideways look you turn towards someone. The sexual meaning has now almost completely taken it over.
組成The path is not fully settled, but it appears to come from an old English noun leer meaning 'cheek' or 'face seen from the side' — so the original idea is turning your face sideways to look at someone.
原始詞典資料23 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。
Leername詞源 1
- 1
A town and rural district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Leername詞源 2
- 1
A small hamlet in Long Rapids Township, Alpena County, Michigan.
Leername詞源 3
- 1
A town, the county seat of Leer County, Unity State, South Sudan.
- 2
A county of Unity State, South Sudan.
leerverb詞源 1/ˈlɪə̯/
- 1
To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.
- And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.
- I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.
- 2
To entice with a leer or leers.
- But Bertran has been taught the Arts of Court, / To guild a Face with Smiles; and leer a man to ruin.
leernoun詞源 1/ˈlɪə̯/
- 1
A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
- Nevertheless humanity stood before him no longer in the pensive sweetness of Italian art, but in the staring and ghastly attitudes of a Wiertz Museum, and with the leer of a study by Van Beers.
- “[…]They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face. It’s nigh on eighteen years since I met him. He hasn’t changed much since then. I have, though,” she added, with a sickly leer.
- 2
An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.
leernoun詞源 2/ˈlɪə̯/
- 1
obsoleteThe cheek.
- No ladie (quoth the earle with a lowd voice, and the tears trilling downe his leeres)
- 2
obsoleteThe face.
- 3
obsoleteOne's appearance; countenance.
- a Rosalind of a better leer than you
- 4
obsoleteComplexion; hue; colour.
- Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer. Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father;
- 5
obsoleteFlesh; skin.
- 6
dialectalThe flank or loin.
leeradj詞源 3/ˈlɪə̯/
- 1
obsoleteEmpty; unoccupied; clear.
- The horse runs leere away without the man.
- 2
obsoleteDestitute; lacking; wanting.
- 3
obsoleteFaint from lack of food; hungry.
- 4
obsoletedialectalThin; faint.
- 5
obsoleteHaving no load or burden; free; without a rider.
- a leer horse
- 6
obsoleteLacking sense or seriousness; trifling; frivolous.
- leer words
leerverb詞源 4/ˈlɪə̯/
- 1
obsoleteTo teach.
- 2
obsoleteTo learn.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- lehr
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。