柯林斯詞典effete /??fi?t/ 1. ADJ If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. 軟弱的[正式] ...the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s. ...19世紀40年代迷人但軟弱的俄國貴族。 返回 effete劍橋詞典literary disapproving weak and without much power 弱不禁風的;了無生氣的;軟弱無能的 With nothing to do all day the aristocracy had grown effete and lazy . 貴族們終日無所事事,變得四躰不勤,嬾散乏力。 disapproving more typical of a woman than of a man 沒有男子漢氣概的;女人氣的 返回 effete