gay
a. 欢快的, 艳丽的, 快乐的, 放荡的
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教材释义与例句
快乐的；放荡的；艳丽的
cheerful and excited
释义与例句
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1.
A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
同志
同性恋者
基佬
半阴
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2.
Gayness: the quality of being gay.
贬义 非正式Anti-gay persecution holds that you can pray the gay out of a person, or scare it out of them, or cajole it out of them.
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3.
Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
方言 废旧There's a good child; look at the gays, and keep quiet.
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An ornament, a knick-knack.
废旧If however the stranger be suspected of “sailing under false colours," when they are all in familiar chat about nothing in particular, “Cousin Jacky” will take occasion to say to the new chum, “My dear; ded 'e ever see a duck clunk a gay?" […] no more deceived by him than a duck can be made to clunk (swallow) a gay (fragment of broken crockery).
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The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
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To make happy or cheerful.
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To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
及物
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Homosexual:
Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
同性恋的
同性恋
基
半阴
半阴阳
Cliff is gay, but his twin brother is straight.
The two failed attempts to receive the necessary access to medicalized transition procedures by the renowned FTM activist Lou Sullivan—a gay man who refused to comply with the imperative that transsexual men must desire women— […]
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Homosexual:
Describing a homosexual man.
gay and lesbian people
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Homosexual:
Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
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Homosexual:
Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
Although the number of gay weddings has increased significantly, many gay and lesbian couples — like many straight couples — are not interested in getting married.
gay marriage
gay sex
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Homosexual:
Not heterosexual, not allosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
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Homosexual:
Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
She professes an undying love for gay bars and gay movies, and even admits to having watched gay porn.
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Homosexual:
Homosexually in love with someone.
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Homosexual:
Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
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Homosexual:
In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
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Homosexual:
In accordance with stereotypes of homosexual people:
Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
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Flamboyant or effeminate in behavior.
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Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
贬义 俚语This game is gay; let’s play a different one.
Dolph: "Oh, man! You kissed a girl!" Jimbo: "That is so gay!"
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Happy, joyful, and lively.
高兴
过时The Gay Science
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Quick, fast.
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Festive, bright, or colourful.
色彩鲜艳的
过时Pennsylvania Dutch include the plain folk and the gay folk.
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Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
废旧As our heroes passed along the Strand, they were accosted by a hundred gay ladies, who asked them if they were good-natured. "Devil take me!" exclaimed Echo, "if I know which way my ship heads; but there is not a girl in the Strand that I would touch with my gloves on."
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Upright or curved over the back.
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Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree. In this sense, also in the variant gey.
苏格兰 废旧A gay deal different to what I is noo.
There were a gay bit of lace on it.
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1.
Considerably, very.
苏格兰She'll mak naw moor mischeef neets—she's gay quiet now!
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词源
From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology. cognates and sense derivation Cognate with Dutch gauw (“fast, quickly”), Westphalian Low German gau, gai (“fast, quick”), German jäh (“abrupt, sudden”). Anatoly Liberman, following Frank Chance and Harri Meier, believes Old French gai was instead a native development from Latin vagus (“wandering, inconstant, flighty”), with *[w] > [g] as in French gaine. The sense of homosexual (first recorded no later than 1937 by Cary Grant in the film Bringing Up Baby, and possibly earlier in 1922 in the poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" by Gertrude Stein) was shortened from earlier gay cat ("homosexual boy") in underworld and prison slang, itself first attested about 1935, but used earlier for a young tramp or hobo attached to an older one. Pejorative usage is due to hostility towards homosexuality. The sense of ‘upright’, used in reference to a dog’s tail, probably derives from the ‘happy’ sense of the word.
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