副词::effetely
名词::effeteness
"a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"
"a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"
1.软弱的;无权力的;怯懦的
If you describe someone aseffete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless.
e.g. ...the charming buteffete Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s.
19世纪四五十年代迷人但怯懦的俄国贵族
1. 失去活力,枯竭,衰弱的:effectuate 使实现,实践 |effete 失去活力,枯竭,衰弱的 | efficacious 有效的
2. 疲惫枯竭:18 imprudent 轻率的 | 19effete 疲惫枯竭 | 20 ebullient 沸腾的,热情洋溢的
3. effete
3. 精疲力尽的:thus and thus 如此如此 |effete 精疲力尽的 | ephemeral 朝生暮死的
4. 疲惫的:effervescent 冒泡的 |effete 疲惫的 | efficacious 有效的
Nature..was as if effete now; could not any longer produce Great Men.
出自:Carlyle