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外刊例句
- Elsewhere too, higher oil prices and a stronger dollar nudged prices up, though Japan still flirts with deflation.
在其他地区,油价上涨和美元走强也同样推高了价格。而日本仍处在通货紧缩边缘。
——《经济学人》 - The well-made-up women gleefully throw wads of cash into the air and flirt viciously with their viewers.
这些妆容精致的女子兴高采烈地把一沓沓现金扔向空中,大肆挑逗观众。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] behave as though attracted to or trying to attract someone, but for amusement rather than with serious intentions
[动词] 表现得好像被人所吸引或者试图吸引某人,但只是出于消遣目的,而非真情实意
深入解读
Flirt 这个单词想必对不少小伙伴来说都不算陌生,其常见含义为“调情”,强调以消遣玩乐为目的,而非意在建立正式严肃的恋爱关系,常用搭配 flirt with sb ,比如:
- 说到调情,相对于直接露骨,他更喜欢较为端庄或含蓄的方式。
When it comes to flirting he prefers a more demure or reserved approach to one that is overt. - 那恬不知耻的女人几乎在跟房间里的每一个男人调情。
That brazen woman was flirting with just about every man in the room.
用作名词时, flirt 自然表示“调情者、卖俏者”,多指喜欢与多人调情的“调情老手”,比如:
- 她是个打情骂俏的老手。她这略有受损的公众形象已没办法挽回。
She's a real flirt. There is no way to salvage her somewhat tarnished public image.
而与 flirt with sb 相对应的 flirt with sth 则相应表示“不认真地考虑或对待某事、对……暂时感兴趣”或者说“玩儿似地想做某事”,比如:
- 那个低声下气的女孩总是喋喋不休地抱怨别人对她多么不好,脑子里一直浮现着辞职的念头。
The abject girl's always bleating about how badly she's been treated, and she's been flirting with the idea of leaving her job. - 她年纪更小一些时曾闹着玩似地想过当迎宾员。
She flirted with the idea of becoming an usher when she was younger.
俗话说“玩火者必自焚”,无论是到处调情还是玩儿似地想做这做那,往严重了说 flirt with sth 就是“故意冒(险)、不顾危险后果”,强调故意使自己暴露在危险或困难之下,比如:
- 和许多年轻人一样,他也喜欢冒险。结果,他在一起摩托车事故中多处骨折并且重度伤残。
Like a lot of young men, he flirted with danger. In consequence, he suffered multiple fractures and got seriously crippled in a motorcycle accident.
名著用例
Besides they say if the flower withers she wears she's a flirt.
他们还说,要是哪个女人佩带的花儿枯了,她就是个卖弄风情者。
出自爱尔兰现代主义作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯(James Joyce)于1922年出版的长篇小说《尤利西斯》(Ulysses)。下载本书请点击:原版名著下载 | 尤利西斯(Ulysses)
同近义词
- tease: tempt (someone) sexually with no intention of satisfying the desire aroused
- court: be involved with romantically, typically with the intention of marrying
- philander: (of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women