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Lipstick is the coloured make-up you put on your lips, sold in a small stick that twists up out of a tube.
Lipstick is the coloured make-up you put on your lipslipstick 是你塗在嘴唇上的有色化妝品 sold in a small stick that twists up out of a tube賣的時候是一小條可以從管子裡轉出來的膏狀物
As a substance it is uncountable — 'she was wearing red lipstick', 'there's lipstick on your collar'. As an object you can count it: 'three lipsticks in her bag'. 'Put on lipstick' and 'wear lipstick' are the two verbs that go with it.
As a substance it is uncountable當成物質來說它是不可數的 'she was wearing red lipstick', 'there's lipstick on your collar'像『she was wearing red lipstick』、『there's lipstick on your collar』這樣 As an object you can count it當成物品來說就可以數 'three lipsticks in her bag'像『three lipsticks in her bag』 'Put on lipstick' and 'wear lipstick' are the two verbs that go with it『put on lipstick』和『wear lipstick』是跟它搭配的兩個動詞
Strictly, lipstick is the stick kind; the runny sort in a little bottle is lip gloss, and a lip balm is the clear one for dry lips with no colour. But in loose everyday talk people stretch 'lipstick' to cover any lip colour.
Strictly, lipstick is the stick kind嚴格來說，lipstick 是條狀的那種 the runny sort in a little bottle is lip gloss裝在小瓶子裡、比較稀的是 lip gloss and a lip balm is the clear one for dry lips with no colour而 lip balm 是給乾唇用的透明無色款 But in loose everyday talk people stretch 'lipstick' to cover any lip colour但日常口語裡人們會把『lipstick』泛指任何唇彩
The word also shows up in a fixed English saying: 'putting lipstick on a pig' means making a bad thing look nicer on the outside without fixing what is wrong inside — a politician might say that about someone else's plan.
The word also shows up in a fixed English saying這個字也出現在一句英文固定用語裡 'putting lipstick on a pig'就是『putting lipstick on a pig』 means making a bad thing look nicer on the outside without fixing what is wrong inside意思是把不好的東西表面弄得好看一點，但沒真的解決裡面的問題 a politician might say that about someone else's plan政治人物可能會這樣說別人的計畫
And 'lipstick on his collar' is a small stock phrase in songs and stories meaning evidence that someone has been kissing another person.
And 'lipstick on his collar' is a small stock phrase in songs and stories而『lipstick on his collar』是歌曲和故事裡的一個小固定說法 meaning evidence that someone has been kissing another person意思是某人跟別人接吻過的證據
原始詞典資料5 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。
lipsticknoun/ˈlɪpstɪk/
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Makeup for the lips.
- Are you wearing any lipstick today?
- In fact, I just saw the movie Shirley Valentine (for the umpteenth time!), and couldn't even look at the adult Marjorie Majors without seeing Patsy and her boofed up hair and red lipstick and long cigarette holder.
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A stick of this makeup.
- I'd like three lipsticks in this shade.
- She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth. She immediately wipes it off with the palm of her hand. She should have black lipstick. A true ninja woman would wear black lipstick.
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informalA dog's penis.
- “So she storms off, yelling at me, ‘Tell your dog to put his lipstick back in its case!’ and that dog and I just stared after them. Both of us were totally smitten.”
- I looked over at our new house-wolf, hoping for a connection, but it was too soon. I felt nothing but resentment. What I saw, however, was something I would have to look away from regularly. He had his lipstick out.
lipstickverb/ˈlɪpstɪk/
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To apply lipstick to; to paint with lipstick.
- She had even white teeth and a mouth that needed no lipsticking.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。