- 1異裝者、變裝者（舊譯「扮異性癖者」帶病理與貶義，現在日常說「變裝」或「跨裝」；此詞已過時，慎用）
A transvestite is a person — usually a man is meant — who dresses in the clothes normally worn by the opposite sex. It is the person-word next to 'transvestism', which is the practice. The plain modern English is 'cross-dresser', and that is what a student should use. 'Transvestite' now sounds dated, and it can sting: it came from doctors, it was long treated as a disorder, and it has been thrown around as an insult, so many people hear it as even when it is not meant that way. It survives in a few fixed places — the film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' made the word famous, and it turns up in older novels and case studies. Two boundaries are worth drawing clearly. It is not the same as being transgender: a cross-dresser generally lives as the sex they were born into and simply wears these clothes, sometimes for comfort, sometimes for fun, sometimes for a performance. And it is not the same as being gay: this is about clothes, not about who someone loves, and most cross-dressers are straight men. Performers who dress up for a stage act call it 'drag' and call themselves drag queens or drag kings — a different world again, and a proud, public one.
組成From Latin trans- ('across') + vestitus, from vestire ('to clothe, to dress'). So, word for word, 'one dressed across' — a cross-dresser. The English word came in through German Transvestit, a term coined by the doctor Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910, though of course the practice itself is far older than the word.
同家族的字
- transvestismthe practice; this word names the person
- vestsame vestire 'to clothe'
- vestmentsame vestire — ceremonial robes
- investsame vestire: to dress someone in the robes of an office, then later, to clothe money in a new form
- travestysame roots through French and Italian — originally 'dressed over, disguised', now a ridiculous imitation of something
原始詞典資料3 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。
transvestitenoun/tɹænzˈvɛs.taɪt/
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datedA person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
- Even though Steven used to dress up in his sister's clothes, it still came as a surprise he ended up as a transvestite.
- Now, we already know that Gerald Hadleigh was a transvestite or a transsexual, whatever the term is.
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clinical-psychologyhuman-sciencesmedicineA person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
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datedbiologynatural-scienceszoologyAn animal that engages in sexual mimicry.
- "Proper" scorpion fly behavior entails the catching of an edible insect by the male, who then offers it to the female […] If she likes the gift, she mates with the male. Thornhill, however, has observed males approaching other males, assuming the female role until they get a grip on the food. Once they have it, they try to run away with it. The "transvestite" males, according to Thornhill, have an advantage over the other males because they have others do the hunting for them, leaving the "transvestites" more time to reproduce. In additon ^([sic]), the "transvestite" scorpion flies would avoid such hazards of the hunt as spider webs.
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。