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A Lothario is a man whose main interest is sleeping with as many women as he can, without a serious, lasting relationship with any of them. The name comes from Lothario, a character in Nicholas Rowe’s play The Fair Penitent (1703), who talks a woman into bed and then is not true to her. That kind of seducer already had the same name in a story inside Don Quixote, called The Impertinent Curious Man. It is a , slightly old-fashioned label, and it is not a compliment — though some speakers use it with a raised , half joking. Younger people are more likely to say player or womanizer. We call a man this; we do not call a woman a Lothario.
登徒子、花花公子(到處留情、不認真交往的男人)
組成Named after Lothario, a seducer in The Fair Penitent (1703); the name already belonged to a seducer in a story inside Don Quixote.
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。
Lotharionoun/loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/
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A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
- High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.
- He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.
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。