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When a face or head is shaven, the hair has been taken off with a razor, right down to the skin. We use this more for how someone looks afterwards than for the action itself: the everyday verb is still shave / shaved (I shaved this morning). Shaven sits on the person like a finished state.
When a face or head is shaven當臉或頭被說是shaven的時候 the hair has been taken off with a razor表示毛髮已經用剃刀刮掉了 right down to the skin一路刮到皮膚 We use this more for how someone looks afterwards這個字比較是用來講刮完之後的樣子 than for the action itself而不是刮這個動作本身 the everyday verb is still shave / shaved日常講動作還是用shave/shaved I shaved this morning像「我今天早上刮了鬍子」這樣的說法 Shaven sits on the person like a finished stateshaven用在人身上,像是在講一個已經完成的狀態
You will meet it most in the pair clean-shaven — a man with no beard or , the skin smooth. People also say a shaven head.
You will meet it most in the pair clean-shaven你最常會在clean-shaven這個詞裡看到它 a man with no beard or moustache, the skin smooth指男生沒有鬍子、鬍鬚,皮膚刮得很乾淨 People also say a shaven head人們也會說a shaven head,指剃光的頭
It feels a little older and neater than shaved; in loose talk many people just say shaved for both the action and the look. Though actually, we do not usually say shaven about legs or underarms in casual talk — there shaved is the normal word.
It feels a little older and neater than shaved它給人的感覺比shaved更老派、更工整一點 in loose talk many people just say shaved for both the action and the look但口語裡很多人動作跟外觀都直接說shaved Though actually不過實際上 we do not usually say shaven about legs or underarms in casual talk講腿毛或腋下的時候,口語不太會用shaven there shaved is the normal word那邊正常都是說shaved
It is not rude, just a slightly careful, written-sounding adjective.
It is not rude這個字並不粗魯 just a slightly careful, written-sounding adjective只是一個稍微講究、比較書面的形容詞
組成shave + the old past-participle ending -en (the same kind of ending as in broken or eaten). In modern English this form is used mainly as an adjective; the ordinary past is shaved.
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。
shavenadj/ˈʃeɪ.vən/
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Having been shaved.
- This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
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。