1 N-COUNT 男人;男子 A
man is an adult male human being.
男人;男子 -
He had not expected the young man to reappear before evening.
他没想到这位年轻男子会在黄昏前再次出现。
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I have always regarded him as a man of integrity. [+ of]
我一向认为他是个正直的人。
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...the thousands of men, women and children who are facing starvation.
成千上万面临饥饿的男人、女人和儿童
2 N-VAR 人,人类(此用法仍有争议) Man and
men are sometimes used to refer to all human beings, including both males and females. Some people dislike this use.
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The chick initially has no fear of man.
小鸡天生并不怕人。
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Anxiety is modern man's natural state.
焦虑是现代人的自然状态。
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...a possible first step to sending a man back to the moon or to Mars.
把人送回月球或火星的可行的第一步
3 N-COUNT (有某类嗜好的)人 If you say that a man is, for example,
a gambling man or
an outdoors man, you mean that he likes gambling or outdoor activities.
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Are you a gambling man, Mr Graham?.
格雷厄姆先生,你是好赌的人吗?
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He is a keen outdoors man with a great interest in photography and walking.
他非常喜欢户外运动,酷爱摄影和徒步旅行。
4 N-COUNT (来自某地的)人;(在某地上过学的)人 If you say that a man is, for example,
a London man or
an Oxford man, you mean that he comes from London or Oxford, or went to university there.
(来自某地的)人;(在某地上过学的)人 5 N-COUNT (某公司或组织的男性)职员,代表 If you refer to a particular company's or organiza-tion's
man, you mean a man who works for or represents that company or organization.
(某公司或组织的男性)职员,代表 [journalism] 6 N-COUNT [poss NOUN] (某人的)支持者,亲信 If you say that a man is someone's
man, you mean that he always supports that person or does what they want.
(某人的)支持者,亲信 7 N-SING 丈夫;情人;男朋友 Some people refer to a woman's husband, lover, or boyfriend as her
man .
丈夫;情人;男朋友 8 N-PLURAL 士兵(相对于军官而言) In the armed forces, the
men are soldiers, sailors, marines, or airmen of lower rank, as opposed to the officers.
士兵(相对于军官而言) 9 N-PLURAL [oft poss NOUN] (尤指从事体力劳动或为上级工作的)男工,男雇员,男下属 Male workers are sometimes referred to as
men, especially if they do physical work or work for a more senior person.
(尤指从事体力劳动或为上级工作的)男工,男雇员,男下属 -
The men voted by a four-to-one majority to accept the pay offer.
男雇员以4比1的多数票接受了工资条件。
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After the talks, the leader of the Workers' Council said his men would be going back down the mines.
会谈之后,工人委员会的领袖说他手下的工人们会重回井下工作。
10 N-VOC (对男子的称呼,表示生气或不耐烦)老兄,老弟,小伙子 One man sometimes addresses another as '
man' when he is angry or impatient with him.
(对男子的称呼,表示生气或不耐烦)老兄,老弟,小伙子 [old-fashioned, feelings] 11 N-VOC (在非正式场合中用以称呼男子)老弟,老兄 In very informal social situations,
man is sometimes used as a greeting or form of address to a man.
(在非正式场合中用以称呼男子)老弟,老兄 [formulae] 12 VERB 在…岗位上工作;操作(机器等) If you
man something such as a place or machine, you operate it or are in charge of it.
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French soldiers manned roadblocks in the capital city. [VERB noun]
法国士兵把守着首都的各路关卡。
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...the person manning the phone at the complaints department. [VERB noun]
投诉部的接线生
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The station is seldom manned in the evening. [be VERB-ed]
这个站晚上很少有人值班。
14 PHRASE 有足够的勇气(或能力) If you say that a man is
man enough to do something, you mean that he has the necessary courage or ability to do it.
有足够的勇气(或能力) 15 PHRASE 更受男人(而非女人)欢迎的男人 If you describe a man as
a man's man, you mean that he has qualities which make him popular with other men rather than with women.
更受男人(而非女人)欢迎的男人 16 CONVENTION 老兄;老弟 People sometimes address a man as
my man .
老兄;老弟 [US, informal] [US, informal] 17 CONVENTION 我的老兄,我的老弟(对地位比自己低的人的友好称呼,但略带屈尊俯就之意) people sometimes address a man as
my man ,
my dear man, or
my good man. This form of address is often friendly, but can also suggest that the speaker feels superior to the person being addressed.
我的老兄,我的老弟(对地位比自己低的人的友好称呼,但略带屈尊俯就之意) -
My dear man, you are welcome to stay.
我的老弟,欢迎你留下来。
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It's not for you to say so, my man!
你不该这么说,老弟!
18 PHRASE 能自己做主;无须听命于他人 If you say that a man
is his
own man, you approve of the fact that he makes his decisions and his plans himself, and does not depend on other people.
能自己做主;无须听命于他人 [approval] 19 PHRASE 一致;毫无例外 If you say that a group of men are, do, or think something
to a man, you are emphasizing that every one of them is, does, or thinks that thing.
一致;毫无例外 [emphasis] -
To a man, the surveyors blamed the government.
调查员们无一例外地都指责政府。
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They died, to a man, when they tried to break out.
他们企图逃走的时候全都丢掉了性命。
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Economists, almost to a man, were sceptical.
经济学家几乎无一例外地持怀疑态度。
SYN without exception, as one, every one, unanimously
20 PHRASE 私下的;一对一的;开诚布公的 A
man-to-man conversation or meeting takes place between two men, especially two men who meet to discuss a serious personal matter.
私下的;一对一的;开诚布公的 21 the man in the street→see: street man about town
→see: town man of the world
→see: world Quotations
Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed Blaise Pascal Pensées Man is the measure of all things Protagoras Man is heaven's masterpiece Francis Quarles Emblems The more I see of men, the better I like dogs Mme Roland There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man Sophocles Antigone Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave Thomas Browne Hydriotaphia Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions Charles Colton Lacon Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live Jean de la Bruyère The Characters, or the Manners of the Age The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence Art Linkletter A Child's Garden of Misinformation Man is a useless passion Jean-Paul Sartre L'Être et le néant Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things Algernon Charles Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon: Hymn of Man I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability Oscar Wilde What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! William Shakespeare Hamlet Man is nature's sole mistake W.S. Gilbert Princess Ida Man is something to be surpassed Friedrich Nietzche Thus Spake Zarathustra The human race, to which so many of my readers belong G.K. Chesterton The Napoleon of Notting Hill Man was formed for society William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England man: an animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary Men are but children of a larger growth John Dryden All for Love Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician Ernst Fischer The Necessity of Art Men play the game, women know the score Roger Woddis View usage for:All yearsLast 10 yearsLast 50 yearsLast 100 yearsLast 300 years