早安英文 第664期:慎用! 这些词比脏话还严重!

 

Don't use them. It's just wherever you see them, you should know what they are.

不要使用这些词，但是任何地方你看到或者听到这些词，你得知道它们的意思。

male chauvinism 男性至上主义

Chauvinism is an irrational¹ belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people. 盲目热爱自己所处的团体

He admits that he is a male chauvinist².

他承认自己是一个男性至上主义者。

frigid³

1.very cold 非常冷的

frigid air 冰冷的空气

2.not showing any feelings of friendship or kindness 冷冰冰的

frigid voice 冷冰冰的声音

3.(of a woman) not wanting to have sex/not enjoying sex 性冷淡的

a frigid woman 一个性冷淡的女人

I think she is frigid. 我觉得她有点性冷淡。

frumpy (女子或其衣着)过时的，古板的，土气的

Frumpy is usually used to describe a woman or her clothes as dowdy⁴ and old-fashioned.

Frumpy用来形容一个女人本身或者她的衣着非常俗气，老土。

She looked so frumpy next to those women.

她在那群女人旁边显得好土气。

shrill⁵ (声音或嗓音)刺耳的，尖声的，尖厉的

that ugly shrillness⁶ in her voice 她的嗓音尖厉刺耳

bimbo 貌美性感但是无知的女人，胸大无脑

A bimbo is a sexually attractive but not very intelligent woman. It's generally used with blondes.

bimbo指的是那种貌美性感但是很蠢的女人，通常用来形容金发女子。（欧美国家对金发女人有这样的刻板印象）

Her husband ran off with some bimbo.

她的丈夫跟某个金发蠢女人跑了。

ditsy adj. 没有头脑的，愚蠢的

airhead n. (贬义)笨蛋

1 irrational   

adj.无理性的，失去理性的

参考例句：

• After taking the drug she became completely irrational.她在吸毒后变得完全失去了理性。
• There are also signs of irrational exuberance among some investors.在某些投资者中是存在非理性繁荣的征象的。

2 chauvinist   

n.沙文主义者

参考例句：

• I don't know how she can live with him;he's such a male chauvinist pig!我真不理解她怎么能与他一起生活，他是个典型的大男子主义者。
• How can you do the Muslim chauvinist thing?你怎么能做穆斯林沙文主义的事情？

3 frigid   

adj.寒冷的，凛冽的；冷淡的；拘禁的

参考例句：

• The water was too frigid to allow him to remain submerged for long.水冰冷彻骨，他在下面呆不了太长时间。
• She returned his smile with a frigid glance.对他的微笑她报以冷冷的一瞥。

4 dowdy   

adj.不整洁的；过旧的

参考例句：

• She was in a dowdy blue frock.她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣。
• She looked very plain and dowdy.她长得非常普通，衣也过时。

5 shrill   

adj.尖声的；刺耳的；v尖叫

参考例句：

• Whistles began to shrill outside the barn.哨声开始在谷仓外面尖叫。
• The shrill ringing of a bell broke up the card game on the cutter.刺耳的铃声打散了小汽艇的牌局。

6 shrillness   

尖锐刺耳

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