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To womanize means, of a man, to keep having sexual relationships with many different women, one after another or at the same time — usually with the sense that he is not serious about any of them and often that he is cheating on a wife or partner. The word is only ever used about men, and it always carries ; nobody says it about himself with pride, and there is no matching word used about women. In practice you will almost never meet the plain verb 'womanize' in modern English — it sounds and old. What you do meet constantly is its two children: the noun 'womanizer' (a man who does this) and the '-ing' form used as an adjective or a noun, as in 'his drinking and womanizing' or 'a hard-drinking, womanizing actor'. Note the British spelling 'womanise' is equally correct; British and American writing differ only in the s/z. The tone is worth feeling carefully: it is but slightly old-fashioned and even a bit , the way a newspaper about a film star from the 1960s. For serious modern criticism of a man's behaviour, English now uses plainer words.
(男人)玩弄女性、到處拈花惹草(貶意)
組成'woman' + '-ize', the ending that turns a noun into a verb meaning roughly 'to act with/on'. The '-ize' ending came into English through French and Latin from Ancient Greek '-izō'.
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。
womanizeverb/ˈwʊmənaɪz/
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To flirt with or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
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To turn into a woman; to feminize.
- [T]his effeminate loue of a wõman, doth ſo womanize a man, that (if hee yeeld to it) it will not onely make him an Amazon; but a launder, a diſtaff-ſpinner; or what ſo euer other vile occupation their idle heads can imagin and their weake hands performe.
- Another bolt passed between Iucharba's legs, nearly womanizing him with its blast of heat. "EEEeeeYOW!" he howled.
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。