beau
beau 英 [bəʊ] 美 [boʊ]
n. 花花公子；喜修饰者；情郎 adj. 美的；好的
名词复数:beaus
- A beau is an old-fashioned term for "boyfriend." When your great-grandmother was young, she probably had a beau.
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- n. 花花公子；喜修饰者；情郎
- adj. 美的；好的
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1. The magnificent beau is dancing to the light of chandeliers.
这个衣着华丽的花花公子在枝形吊灯灯光下翩翩起舞。
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2. Her goal: to slay 21 Yankees, one for each year of her beau’s life.
她的目标：宰掉21个北方佬，21是她情郎的年龄。
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3. Questions vary wildly from the political and the literary to the intimately personal — the magazine features one annoyed girlfriend asking her beau when he’s finally going to marry her.
问题多样而狂野，从政治、文学到个人私密——杂志专载了一位晕火的女孩，她问她的情郎什么时候敲定娶她。
- beau (n.) "attendant suitor of a lady," 1720, from French beau "the beautiful," noun use of an adjective, from Old French bel "beautiful, handsome, fair, genuine, real" (11c.), from Latin bellus "handsome, fine, pretty, agreeable" (see belle). Meaning "man who attends excessively to dress, etiquette, etc.; a fop; a dandy" is from 1680s, short for French beau garçon "pretty boy" (1660s). Plural is beaus or beaux. Beau Brummel, arbiter of men's fashion in Regency London, was George B. Brummel, gentleman (1778-1840).
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