effete
effete 英 [ɪˈfi:t] 美 [ɪˈfit]
adj. 衰老的；疲惫的；（土地）贫瘠的；（动植物）不育的
effete heart needs a moment rest 疲惫的心灵也需要片刻的停歇
A lot of people are saying, "Enough of this kind of effete culture. 很多人都在说，“我们已经厌倦了这毫无生气的文化。
- Effete is a disapproving term meaning decadent and self-indulgent, even useless. The stereotype of the rugged Westerner is just as false as the one of the effete East Coast liberal.
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- adj. 衰老的；疲惫的；（土地）贫瘠的；（动植物）不育的
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1. effete heart needs a moment rest
疲惫的心灵也需要片刻的停歇
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2. A lot of people are saying, "Enough of this kind of effete culture.
很多人都在说，“我们已经厌倦了这毫无生气的文化。
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3. The Democrats, meanwhile, strike some white men as effete, cosmopolitan and condescending.
与此同时，民主党人认为白色男人是衰微的，城市人，谦逊屈尊。
- effete (adj.) 1620s, "functionless as a result of age or exhaustion," from Latin effetus (usually in fem. effeta) "exhausted, unproductive, worn out (with bearing offspring), past bearing," literally "that has given birth," from a lost verb, *efferi, from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + fetus "childbearing, offspring" (see fetus). Figurative use is earliest in English; literal use is rare. Sense of "intellectually or morally exhausted" (1790) led to that of "decadent, effeminate" (by 1850s).
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