- 1花花公子、玩弄女性的男人;台灣口語常說「渣男」(較重)或「花心的男人」
A womanizer is a man who has sexual relationships with lots of different women, treating them as conquests rather than as people he cares about. The word says something about his pattern of behaviour over years, not about one affair, and it is always — you are saying he uses women. Notice how it differs from words nearby: a 'playboy' is rich and enjoys himself and the word sounds glamorous; a 'flirt' only talks and jokes, without necessarily doing anything; 'cheat' or 'cheater' is about breaking a promise to one partner. 'Womanizer' sits in the middle — it is about quantity and about not caring. The tone is but not the strongest word English has; it can even sound slightly indulgent, the tired way people talk about an old actor or politician ('he was a terrible womanizer'), which is why some writers now avoid it and use harder, clearer language when the behaviour was actually abusive. It is a normal word for reading and for talking about people in the news; British writing may spell it 'womaniser'. There is no common word used about a woman in the same way — English has never made one, and that gap tells you something about how the language grew.
組成'womanize' + '-er', the ending that means 'the person who does it'. Underneath, that is 'woman' + '-ize' + '-er'.
原始詞典資料1 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。
womanizernoun/ˈwʊm.əˌnaɪ.zəɹ/
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A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women.
- A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as “very much of a womanizer, very self-involved”.
- Sometimes the stereotype is framed as light and cheeky—think the “boys will be boys” mentality exemplified by sitcom womanizers such as How I Met Your Mothers Barney Stinson or '''Two and a Half Mens Charlie Harper.
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。