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Womanizing is the habit of a man having short sexual relationships with many different women, one after another or several at the same time, without caring much about any of them. It is used as an adjective in front of a noun — "her womanizing husband", "a womanizing film star" — and also as a noun for the behaviour itself: "his womanizing finally ended the marriage." The related noun for the man is a womanizer, and there is a verb, to , though the verb sounds old-fashioned now and you will mostly meet the -ing form. The word always carries . It is not a neutral way to say a man dates a lot; it says he uses women. Notice also that it is only used about men. There is no common word like this for a woman, and that is not an accident — the language grew in a time when people judged men and women differently, and the word still carries that old world with it. In tone it is a little formal and a little old-fashioned, the word of a newspaper article or a biography of some famous man. Young people talking about a friend today are more likely to say he is "a player" or that he "sleeps around". You will very often see it in the fixed pairing "drinking and womanizing", describing a man who lives wildly.
(男人)玩弄女性的、到處拈花惹草的;獵艷成性
組成woman + -ize (a suffix that makes a verb, "to treat as / to make into") + -ing. So the verb womanize once meant something like "to chase after women", and womanizing is its -ing form. The -ize part is the same one in modernize and apologize.
原始詞典資料1 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。
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。