關鍵字彙：
cohabit/ coquette/ coy/ cuckold/ dally with/ feminine/ gigolo/ henpecked/ inconstant/ libertine/ masculine/ philanderer/ shrew/ termagant/ unrequited/ uxorious/ virago/ virile/ vivacious
1. 「具男性特質的」或「陽剛的」說masculine；「具女性特質的」或「陰柔的」叫feminine：
• In terms of gender equality, men can have feminine qualities and women can have masculine ones.
• They're nice curtains, but I'd prefer something a little more masculine.
• Hunting was a typically masculine occupation.
• Jane's feminine intuition told her that there is something wrong with her marriage.
2. 女性「嬌羞的」叫coy，「爽朗的」是vivacious：
• She was coy in her answer to his offer.
• The vivacious girl made a good cheerleader.
3. 「壞脾氣、兇悍且嘮叨的女人」叫shrew、virago或termagant。其中termagant最常出現在文學作品裡：
• The husband did not know how to tame the shrew.
• The husband could never live a peaceful life with the termagant.
• My neighbor's wife is a virago.
4. 男性「雄赳赳的」叫virile；「怕老婆的」叫henpecked；「疼老婆的」叫uxorious：
• She admired the virile young swimmer.
• How could such a big, virile man have such a high, piping voice?
• The husband emphasized that he was not henpecked but uxorious.
5. 「淫蕩的男人」叫libertine；「靠女人養活的男人」、「小白臉」叫gigolo；「戴綠帽的男人」叫cuckold：
• Although she was aware of his reputation as a libertine, she felt she could reform him and help him break his dissolute way of life.
• She sadly found that her boyfriend turned out to be a gigolo.
• He flattered himself with marrying a beautiful wife, but his neighbors knew that actually he was a cuckold.
6. 「調情」說成dally with；「愛情不專的」叫inconstant；形容愛情「得不到回報的」，用unrequited：
• Never dally with a woman you don't intend to marry.
• No longer an inconstant lover, John became a faithful husband and good father after marriage.
• John was grieved for his unrequited love to Helen.
7. 「玩弄感情的人」，男的叫philanderer，女的叫coquette。另外，「同居」叫cohabit：
• The philanderer said shamelessly that he had five girlfriends at the same time.
• Don't take her promises so seriously; she is a proverbial coquette.
• She refused to cohabit with him before the wedding.
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