- 1口紅、唇膏。台灣兩個都在用:「口紅」偏有顏色的那種,「唇膏」有時指護唇的(無色)那種,所以講護唇膏要說 lip balm 才不會誤會。
Lipstick is the coloured make-up you put on your lips, sold in a small stick that twists up out of a tube. 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. 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. 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. And 'lipstick on his collar' is a small stock phrase in songs and stories meaning evidence that someone has been kissing another person.
組成lip(嘴唇)+ stick(棍狀的東西)。就是「嘴唇用的小棍子」——很直白。
原始詞典資料5 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。
lipsticknoun/ˈlɪpstɪk/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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/
- 1
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:
- lipstick lesbian
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。