Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

"sorry-looking ""dandyman"

Chinese translation:

垂头丧气/浪荡公子

Added to glossary by Edward LIU
Mar 12, 2004 02:49
20 yrs ago
English term

"sorry-looking ""dandyman"

English to Chinese Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
A little bunch of sorry-looking scouts led by a dandyman and a slight boy.

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垂头丧气/浪荡公子


垂头丧气/浪荡公子
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糟糕样子的;可怜样子的;一个打扮得漂亮的男子

sorry = terrible (used of the appearance or condition of a person or thing) 糟糕的;可怜 eg He was a sorry sight in his dirty old clothes. 他穿着脏兮兮的旧衣服,一副可怜相.

dandy = a man,especially in the past, who dressed in expensive, fashionable clothes and was very interested in his own appearance eg an upper-class dandy

dandified = looking like a dandy eg An embroidered silk waistcoat contributed to his dandified appearance.
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